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

[Bart Zorn]

On Sunday, March 18, 2012 2:16:18 PM UTC+1, Paul Sture wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Paul Sture

To keep our 8 VT52's running we had a DEC Field Circus guy on-site for about 3 days each week. That was back in 1978. Unfortunately, our experience with the VT100 was only a little bit better. We switched to C-Itoh CIT101 and later CIT224 which were much better quality.

Bart