What VT420 terminal is better

[tedmomrik]

I have had my PBX up for just over 2 years. I had started with 8, but am currently down to 7. All of our systems had Wyse WY-520 terminals supplied with them, within the first year every terminal had been replaced at least once, some as many as 3 times. I am looking at replacing them and would like to here from others on what you recommend as a dumb terminal instead of the Wyse.

 

[johnpoole]

use a pc if at all possible.. there almost as cheap

john poole
bellsouth business
columbia,sc

 

[acewarlock]

You must have a voltage problem as I have never seen Vt420 stop working like that, I've seem them years older that that.

But I would do as johnpoole say's to do and put PC's there with regular monitors.

 

[LeeMcCauslin]

Yes PC. but if you must do dumb terminal, we have DECs that have been running nearly nonstop for at least the 6 years that I've been here and most likely much longer. I personally like the "pizza box" vt520's because I can attach my own monitor. With us, when dumb terminals do go down, it's almost always for video. I have enough spare old monitors lying around that I hardly ever have to buy a new one. We do still have a lot of old 320 and 420s out there too.

But we are slowly replacing with thin-clients. Getting everybody on IP makes things go easier. Slowly because some of the terminals refuse to die. I have to replace terminal servers a lot more than terminals (With a switch and a thin client).

I have DEC vt520 and a flat panel monitor on my switch in addition to the PC that I use most of the time. And that DEC has been there since long before I started here...

 

[telecomnorth]

??? Boundless Technologies took over making the DEC terminals from Digital. They can be found on the web.

 

[LeeMcCauslin]

Really? I think I have one Boundless branded unit but I don't like it - i forget why but I remember there being some difficulty getting it to play nice with the terminal server. Probably shows how old our DECs are - I haven't bought a new dumb terminal in years. When a Lantronix bites it, we move in thin-clients and network switches. Stack the dumb terminals in the cave and then use them at smaller sites when somebody spills coffee in their 320.


Just for me, if I couldn't get a real DEC I'd definitely go PC.