Hi
We have a 4014 at the computer club and that patterns looks very
familiar. It usually clears after a minute or so.
We have assumed it was normal and have not investigated.
Congratulations on a nice find! I'm quite jealous.
/P
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:03:03PM -0700, Josh Dersch wrote:
Hi all --
Picked up a Tektronix 4014-1 terminal. It's in pretty good shape,
nice and clean and it's in nearly-working condition except that the
storage behavior isn't quite right.
On power-up, write-through doesn't. (That is, characters don't get
stored to the tube.) Clearing the display via the RESET/PAGE key
clears a roughly elliptical region in the center of the display but
leaves the outer edges a mess. The cleared region stores characters
properly. You can see the overall effect here:
http://yahozna.dyndns.org/scratch/tek4014/clear.jpg
After a 2-3 minutes of warming up the area cleared by RESET/PAGE
increases. I haven't run the terminal long enough to see if it
eventually completely erases the screen (while the power supply
appears to be within tolerances, I still need to rebuild/reform it
so I'm not going to run it too long yet).
So far everything else seems to be functioning properly, the cursor
appears properly (and does not write through), input is accepted
from the keyboard, etc. I've been reading through the service manual
on Bitsavers and it describes a very in-depth alignment procedure
which I'm prepared to go through (once I've got the power supplies
rebuilt) but I thought I'd ask here if this problem rings any bells
and if there's anything I should immediately suspect or adjust. You
guys know everything :).
Thanks as always for the advice,
Josh