VT52s wanted

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu May 27 23:03:20 2004

>
> Does anyone have any dead DEC VT52 terminals they would like to donate to my
> cause? All clues are now pointing to a bad RUT module on *BOTH* of my
> VT52s.
> One RUT module causes the CRT to do random things. The other one, which is
> much more well behaved, lets me get the flashing cursor that I should get,
> but no keyboard input is displayed and there are no keyclicks. I suppose I
> could go through the individual components of the RUT board one by one and

Might I suggest a better aproach would be to stop replacing parts and to
do some troubleshooting. I assume the printset is available (I've never
looked, I have an original on paper). And from what I remmeber it's not
that complicated, virtually all simple TTL chips. So figure out what it's
doing, and why it's doing it.

-tony
Received on Thu May 27 2004 - 23:03:20 BST