[Info-vax] Terminals, was: Re: Use of media with licenses

[Scott Dorsey]

Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>On 2016-11-10, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> And you got a user manual with _every_ _single_ VT terminal
>>> you bought.
>>
>>    Perhaps the seller thought it possible that _every_
>> _single_ VT terminal would have a user.
>
>You don't need 100 user manuals if you order 100 terminals.
>
>Normal end users would never have seen that user manual; they would
>have been told what buttons to press (and what _not_ to press)
>during their training for the applications they were going to use
>in their jobs.

I know, but you got them anyway.  I'm still finding VT220 and DEQNA manuals
hidden in drawers here and there at facilities that haven't had any DEC
systems in years.  The manuals outlasted the hardware.
--scott

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