Using Wyse-150 Terminals ??

[Macy Hallock]

In article <2546 at thebes.Thalatta.COM> campbell at Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
>In article <2210 at wb3ffv.ampr.org> howardl at wb3ffv.ampr.org ( WB3FFV) writes:

[...discussion of WY-150 terminals and use of Link MC-5 terminals as
 a better alternative ommitted...]

We used WY-60 terminals here and tried the Link MC-3 as well.  Neither
terminal was perfect...

The primary problem with the WY-60 was reliability.  That's why we are
reluctant to commit to the WY-150, which seems to run OK.

The Link MC-3 had a couple of problems of its own:
	- no 101 key style AT keyboard, just a RT style 101 keyboard
	  with the functions keys in groups of file at the top, rather
	  than in groups of four like AT 101 style.  Our users bitched
	  a fit about this.  Not bad once you get used to it, though.
	- a tendency to lose the setup info stored in NVRAM.  We
	  originally thought this to be static related, but its not.
	  This is our most serious technical problem.

The MC-3 has a three year warranty, which was reassuring to us after the
WY-60 problems.  We haven't yet had to send back a Link MC-3 for repair
except for the setup loss problem mentioned above.  We still have no
solution for this problem, even though its very intermittent and you can
go months with no problems and then...

We have not tried the MC-5 yet, but we are thinking about it.
It does not have a three year warranty, though :(

Anyone know anything more about the MC-3 problem here?

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