Tektronix Terminal 4012

G'day, I have one of these beasties sitting around - they're a mid-late 1970's design I believe (the only date I can find on it however is the copyright on the PCB for the powersupply - 1971). At first glance, it does appear to work - powers up and screen glows a wonderfull cliche green. Serial cord connected and send data to it... no effect. :( So, has anyone ever setup one of these things to work as a terminal to a common garden PC (linux user I am)? Might the screen have burnt out and it simply is unable to display anything I send to it anyways? Does it need a straight-through or null-modem serial connection? Do I need to send an initialisation string to it before it'll accept and display any data? None of these things I know, and trial and error problem solving can be frustrating, especially if other problems prevent them from being solved that way! ;) btw, I have a few cheap webcam shots of the thing, and can get them on a webpage, if anyone is interested in seeing the thing. .../Nemo -- -=- <nemo(a)net.house.cx> -=- http://www.net.house.cx/~nemo/ -=- -=- -=- -=- The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music! -=-