VT52s wanted

From: Ashley Carder <wacarder_at_usit.net>
Date: Fri May 28 06:03:08 2004

Yep, That was my plan. I've never done that kind of thing before,
but I'm ready to try. You're right, the boards don't look very
complicated. How big is the printset that you have?

- Ashley

-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Tony Duell
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 12:03 AM
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: VT52s wanted


>
> 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 Fri May 28 2004 - 06:03:08 BST