12 May
2005
12 May
'05
9:28 a.m.
Do you have the Tek mouse also?
Turn it on.
While you hold down the self test button, you press and release the
reset button.
Hold in the self test button for another 2 seconds, then release it
You should see a white cross hair cursor in the middle of the screen.
After about 30 seconds the keyboard beeps and a test menu is
displayed.
Press F7 for the extended test. After about 4 minutes an extended menu appears.
When it boots to the Astric prompt try entering "status" that should
give you more information.
Two beeps on the keyboard indicates an error. Do any error codes get
displayed on the screen at that time.
6 ROMs is about right. I doubt you are missing any.
I have the docs but they are burried in storage and I havn't seen them
for a couple of years. I did find a generic CX4100 series terminal
manual which covers the IBM (3270) versions of the terminals so I can
answer some questions.
Paxton
Astoria,OR
On 5/12/05, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Anyone out there have a Tek 4109 terminal, better still with manuals,
and even better still with service info?
Witchy chucked his one this way last night. It's powering up now, which
is a start...
... sometimes it powers up to just a blank screen, sometimes to a screen
with just a flashing cursor (possibly that's right behaviour :) and
sometimes a blank screen along with a flashing caps-lock LED.
On a reset, sometimes it gives a blank screen and two long beeps from
the speaker.
Anyone able to tell me what the beep codes mean, what the flashing caps
LED means, and what the default power-up state should be?
Possibly it's waiting for something from a host (yuck), or at least
indication that it's connected to a host via serial port control lines -
but the varying power up / reset states suggests that it's not entirely
happy anyway...
Oh, confirmation that it has all its ROMs would be nice. Of the two rows
of four columns, the leftmost column is empty - is that OK, or has
someone swiped those two chips for something else? Presumably the fact
that it has 6 ROM chips in place (and they're externally accessible and
obviously designed to be pluggable) hints that it has some sort of
custom on-board app?
There's a Tek tablet with it too (4197 IIRC) - no idea which of the two
COM ports this should plug into, but I'd assume if the terminal was
going to do anything it'd do it whether the tablet was present or not...
anyone? :)
cheers
Jules
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Paxton Hoag
Astoria, OR
USA