Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!tektronix!orca!hammer!andrew From: andrew@hammer.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: comp.terminals Subject: Re: HP 2621? Message-ID: <2715@hammer.TEK.COM> Date: Mon, 22-Dec-86 12:46:06 EST Article-I.D.: hammer.2715 Posted: Mon Dec 22 12:46:06 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Dec-86 18:40:04 EST References: <2744@j.cc.purdue.edu> Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR Lines: 35 [The old story: I tried replying with mail and the network slimed me, so I'm entrusting the message to news.] I have an HP2621A (like the 'P' but with no printer). It's an excellent terminal for Unix use; it has insert/delete line/character so it's good with slow-speed modems, it doesn't need to do any handshaking at 9600 baud, and the extra page of scrollable memory is very nice. The things I don't like are: -- Power up condition is with no tabs set. Every ^I sends the cursor to the beginning of the next line. Don't "stty tabs" until you have "tset", and be sure that your termcap sets up the tabs. -- The caps lock key is in an awkward place, and you can't tell by examination whether it's on or off -- no LED, no detented position. It takes a while to quit hitting it when searching for the CONTROL key. -- You'll hate it if you hit RUBOUT a lot. It's shift-ESCAPE. If I had it to do over, I would buy it again. Rock solid; in four years I've only had to replace a keyboard encoder chip. HP parts supply was responsive. (There's a sales office across the street from where I work.) I used to work at a place with lots of 'A's and 'P's. The printers were not very useful and the paper is expensive. But you can use a 'P' as a terminal, ignore the printer, and still win. I have an improved termcap (better than 4.2BSD); if you buy the terminal, let me know and I'll forward it. -=- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP] (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay) [ARPA]