Date   : Fri, 08 Jun 1984 14:38:00-PDT
From   : ABN.ISCAMS@Usc-Isid.ARPA
Subject: Re: Ferguson Big Board info wanted

Good advice, and especially good detail on what it takes with the Big Board
to get up and running.

However...terminals.  I've been running a Freedom 100 terminal since they
first came out (cost about $490 or so then), and have had absolutely NO
problems!  Fast scrolling (normally run at 19200 from my Decision I serial
port), a BUNCH of commands, almost exactly like a Televideo 925.

The original Freedom 100 had a kind of non-glamorous keyboard -- works just
great, don't get me wrong, but doesn't look quite so sexy.

Oh, yeah - by the time I got a printer to try the Auxiliary serial port
off the back of the Freedom, I was out of warranty, and have never managed
to get that port working for Screen Print, etc.  Bad luck, I guess.

The new Freedom 110s (I think) are even nicer - sexy keyboard, PLUS
true programmable function keys (my 100 had the same keys, but NOT
software programmable).


One good looking machine, and advertised retail at only about $525 in Byte
and elsewhere.  I don't know if it's emulating a Televideo 950 or higher in
its normal mode or not; suspect so.  Manual isn't so bad either, though not
like a DEC terminal manual.  Just takes a little figuring and playing.

Hope this helps.

David Kirschbaum
Toad Hall