jpero_at_pop.cgocable.net wrote:
> > looked like clock radios on steroids.
> >
> Non standard monitors to go with those! :( Boo hiss
No, those went with standard VGA displays.
>
> That LCD display is backlighted - I assume yours is now dead long
> since. I know that when I worked on it and it did have circuit
> traces and holes to take 1MB x 1bit chips and 256K x 1bit. To
> convert to 4MB, major solder work. Yuk.
>
> Weird machine.
>
> But I don't enjoy this one anyway so it went by without misgivings.
> I'm amazed at high failure rate. That real bad.
I prepped a batch for a customer, I never owned one, never will,
although I do have a few Wyse terminals. But six bad machines out of
fourteen turned me off forever on Wyse computers -- from the missing
components on a couple of motherboards, there is no way those boards
had ever seen power before we pulled the assembled CPUs out of the
boxes to install operating systems (and AboveBoards and tape drives).
I have to assume that there was no direct connection below the Board
of Directors level between the terminal and PC divisions.
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram_at_cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any
firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright
Received on Tue Oct 13 1998 - 01:03:06 BST