3 Jun
2008
3 Jun
'08
6 a.m.
On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Allison wrote:
Generally yes in my exerience. The PS is a ASTEC
switcher in the drive
and DEC in the tube/system case.
Customer could buy the second drive though when it was being sold it was
very expensive.
Allison,
Do you recall anything about the semi-mythical Corvus interface for the
VT180? It's mentioned in the Corvus technical literature, but I've never
talked to anyone that's actually seen it in the wild. I'm curious if it
ever actually existed.
Steve
--
Any pointers appreciated (on or off list) - what
to do or check in what
order would be great. Its been a long time since I blew up directional
capacitors in lab...so long I don't even remember what they're called.
Thanks in advance!<grin>
Generally every one I'd found powered up or was dead. The latter was
"it was dead when I got it" from the person before me and likely dead
from the person before that.
Watch the VT100 monitor board. There is a cap that should be a higher
voltage part that fails in time taking parts. It's repairable if croaked
but people panic when they see chared board.