HP terminals, Dust and Quick Fix

Since HP terminals are being mentioned quite a bit lately, here's an easy repair/maintenance hint for some of the older HP terminals. Not sure which models are affected, but my 2382A (I think that's the right number, haven't used it for a while) used to stop working every so often. From what I recall, the display would become distorted--- displaying much smaller text, etc., and then, eventually, nothing. Every time this would happen, I would open up the case, take it outside, blow the dust out of it, bring it back in and reassemble the case. This fixed the problem every time... that terminal had a great fondness for collecting dust, thanks to it's fan... apparently it liked to collect dust as much as we like to collect computers. :-) -- Copyright (C) 2003 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.