[rescue] Favorite Terminals

[Brian Hechinger]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 06:43:23PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> At an insurance adjuster's office today, I saw an IBM InfoWindow terminal.
> Now, I've been mostly happy with the green-and-black Digital VT420 I have.
> 
> The adjuster's InfoWindow had color, reasonable clarity, an IBM clickey
> keyboard, and it certainly didn't appear to be running at 9600bps.
> However, it used a coaxial connection, rather than RS-232.  Do these
> terminals ride directly on thinnet (or token ring) or is this a
> proprietary IBM connector?

like most thing made by IBM, completely incompatable with anything else. :)

Hi Sridhar!!

> Not intending to start another holy war... what are some of your favorite
> serial terminals?  I'm seriously considering revising my "black-and-white
> XTerm in every room" project to be "swank serial terminal in every room",
> and feel like I'm woefully undereducated on what's out there.

if you like the 420, but hate the keyboard, get a VT510.  PS2 keyboard, so you
can use your Model M on it.

-brian
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