Path: utzoo!lsuc!maccs!dan From: dan@maccs.UUCP (Dan Trottier) Newsgroups: comp.terminals Subject: Re: No more Lear-Sieglers -- What is good? Keywords: Help us find a terminal family! Message-ID: <1185@maccs.UUCP> Date: 11 May 88 16:55:38 GMT References: <296@fedeva.UUCP> Reply-To: dan@maccs.UUCP (Dan Trottier) Organization: McMaster U., Hamilton, Ont., Can. Lines: 21 In article <296@fedeva.UUCP> wrd3156@fedeva.UUCP (Bill Daniels) writes: >a family with dumb terminals as well as fairly smart terminals (graphics, >color, etc). My questions to the netland: What terminal family do you use? >Are you happy with the line? Is the family complete enough for your >requirements? > >Any recommendations or insights will be appreciated! Well how about buying cheap PCs with one floppy and a fair amount of memory. You can then purchase terminal emulator products for whatever terminal you want to emulate. I'm not saying this is the best way to go but it is the most flexible. A cheap PC would probably cost about the same as a good graphics terminal depending on the configuration of the PC. The key to using PC as emulators is good reliable software that can properly emulate what you want. If the need arised where you needed to switch to a different terminal you would need to change the hardware. -- A.I. - is a three toed sloth! | ...!uunet!mnetor!maccs!dan -- Official scrabble players dictionary -- | dan@mcmaster.BITNET