Ballsout. I agree wholeheartedly. They were the bees'knees. Only problem I ever knew about was when the busbar behind the FO shorted out and filled the FD with blinding smoke/fumes in seconds. LHS was wearing enormous glasses that gave hin a little protection and he slung it at the nearest runway he could see(fortunately they were in the pattern at CPH at the time). The FMS was way ahead of it's time and the instrumentation was pure early Airbus. It was a delight to fly and we had an unofficial competition to see who could get it from LGW to CDG (raw date/manual) fastest. No problems with over reliance on gizmos then!