16 Apr
2008
16 Apr
'08
2:05 p.m.
On Apr 16, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
I've seen exactly three fail...I've had dozens upon dozens of
those terminals go through my hands. Mind you, I think that's an
When I was at Bristol, we had DEC terminal everywhere. Mostly VT220s,
which were extremely reliable, I think I had to fix _2_ in all my time
there. I had a real VT100 on my bench, and there were a few
VT3xx's. All
of the latter (perhaps 10 units) suffered from flyback problems.
Ugh. Bad production run, perhaps?
You could find them 8 yeas ago, can you find them _now_?
Well, 8 years ago, I happened to know someone who happened to have
a warehouse full of them. They're available *now* on eBay all day long.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
DEC VT320
or VT420. They are reliable, small, cheap, and
easy to
find.
And eat flyback trasnformers like they're going out of fashion. FWIW, I've not managed to obtain any VT2xx or
later DEC terminal
with the
exception of the VT240. THey're not that common in .uk
Really? That surprises me. They're all over the place here. A
fellow with whom I've sadly lost touch had a warehouse containing
well over a thousand VT320s maybe eight years ago. I think it was in
Virginia. I wonder what happened to those.