From: mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) Subject: Re: X terminals: Suggestion for projects like SLS, MCC, etc. Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 13:07:25 GMT
bcr@cernapo.cern.ch (Bill Riemers) writes:
>I wrote:
>>I agree, if you want the Xterminal as a "workstation"... However, there are
>>a number of situations when something of low cost/low performance would be
>>perferable. Forexample, last year we decided we wanted a dedicated monitor
>>for our event display. To to technical limitations a Tektronics terminal was
>>to usable, so we had to go with something that could open an Xwindow. The
>>cheapest xterminal listed was about $3000,
>>>>>> On Sun, 13 Jun 1993 16:19:19 GMT, mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) said:
Mark> What are you trying to say? You can get several Xterminals for under $900.
Mark> As long as you are running an Xwindows application, they can do anything
Mark> a "workstation" can do. The same can be said for Pex, etc... except those
Mark> Xterminals will cost a lot more (but still less than a "workstation" supporting
Mark> the same features).
>To bad you weren't working on our experiment. You could have saved us a considerable
>amount of money... Did I forget to mention it had to be color, and it had to have
>a de-gaussing switch (so we could operate it at our experiment site), and the cost
>included shipping to Switzerland, 1 year maintanance contract, but no import tax?
>Anyways, if you can give us a reference to contact it would help. The dedicated
>used micro-VAX has bought the farm.
> Bill
Oh, color does change the picture some- the price would, obviously, be more.
You can still get several color Xterminals at very good prices. We chose
mono to save $ and nobody could really tell me exactly why we would even
need color here. But, I have not seen any terminals with de-gaussing :(
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