27 May
2004
27 May
'04
4:03 p.m.
Does anyone have any dead DEC VT52 terminals they would like to donate to my
cause? All clues are now pointing to a bad RUT module on *BOTH* of my
VT52s.
One RUT module causes the CRT to do random things. The other one, which is
much more well behaved, lets me get the flashing cursor that I should get,
but no keyboard input is displayed and there are no keyclicks. I suppose I
could go through the individual components of the RUT board one by one and
Might I suggest a better aproach would be to stop replacing parts and to
do some troubleshooting. I assume the printset is available (I've never
looked, I have an original on paper). And from what I remmeber it's not
that complicated, virtually all simple TTL chips. So figure out what it's
doing, and why it's doing it.
-tony