I have nagged Tom for years over the fire-sale price of Vista. He's very sensitive to what he views as 'price points' for garage-ware--no matter how good it is. Tom does not deal with POs. (Nor, by the way, does Barry Merrill for MXG.) Tom is good about providing gratis copies to students as well as to those who have 'mechanical' problems paying in US dollars.
Nevertheless it all adds up. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 6:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use W dniu 2016-03-17 o 14:15, David Crayford pisze: > On 17/03/2016 9:04 PM, R.S. wrote: >>>> >>> >>> And you can't beat the price, at $30 it's a steal. Tom is literally >>> giving it away, an amazing act of altruism. He could double that >>> price and customers would still bite his hand off! >> AFAIK Nexus 3270 is even cheaper (and definitely the ...fastest, and >> the smallest). The cheapest is wc3270 which is windows-compatible >> clone of x3270. It's free. >> Of course Vista is realy good stuff! BTW: Once upon a time I've got a >> licence from Tom ...for free. >> >> From the other hand, IBM PCOMM is huge, slow and damn expensive. It's >> quite good as well, but I wouldn't want to pay for it. > > We have PComm here and I won't use it. It has keyboard lag and the > font's don't scale. POS! It is rarely needed now, but PCOMM supports variety of connection ways, including SNA, coax, etc. Having PCOMM you can set up woriking SNA network between workstations. Keyboard can be *easily* redefined. Fonts are not scalable, but very good shape (for terminal purposes) IMHO. BTW: AFAIR Vista 3270 also do not use scalable fonts. PCOMM also has good features for IND$file transmissions. Last, but not least for me: it is one of very few 3270 emulator which *correctly* support polish characters. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
