[Info-vax] Current VMS engineering quality, was: Re: What's VMS up to these

[Paul Sture]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:06:01 -0700, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> The various printing terminals are quaint, but I can live better without
> them. The VT05 was cool looking, but a bit lacking. But I wouldn't mind
> having one today, just for the looks. The VT52 is a perfectly fine
> terminal, even today.
> 
> Various other (non-DEC) glass terminals are better forgotten...

The VT52 had some kind of power problem though.  They would die at 
regular intervals and it took something like 45 minutes of disassembly to 
replace the affected part, followed by another 45 minutes of reassembly.

We were glad when VT100s came along.



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Paul Sture