4 May
2004
4 May
'04
2:51 a.m.
My, I'm just full of terminal questions...
I have a Televideo 910.. maybe it's a 950 but I think it said 910 on it.
When the terminal is just sitting there with stuff on the screen, no data is
being sent or received... it will suddenly flip to a "previous screen" all
by itself. I don't know if the terminal supports multiple pages of display
memory, but the symptom is as if it does support multiple display memory and
spontaneously all by itself it switches pages and I see data on the screen
that came by a while ago.
Can anyone point to a likely culprit that may be causing this? The terminal
itself is in perfect mint condition so I hate to get rid of it but this
problem is annoying!
Regards,
Jay West
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4 May
4 May
5:20 a.m.
New subject: SunTurboxGX card names. Possibly OT.
At the TCF I go a Sun video card (with a STP3010PGA TurboxGX
chip on it) as _scrap_. It's broken, but interesting in that it has printed
on the PCB:
"Curtis, Chris M, Joe, Brian, Kevin, Chris O., ...
Mike, Bruce, Don, Anissa, Tony, Young"
and the names
Curtis, Chris M, and Bruce
are printed with an X over them, rather than being removed.
Is this a list of designers like on the inside of the Mac?
Why did they cross out the three names rather than just drop them?
Looking for more of a story here, in case someone knows.
It's a lot of board realestate used, sounds like it might've been an
interesting project. Less obscure question follows this one.
John A.
6:50 a.m.
Jay West wrote:
My, I'm just full of terminal questions...
I have a Televideo 910.. maybe it's a 950 but I think it said 910 on it.
They can't be confused -- a 910 looks like an ADM-3A (but squarer, not
as cute) and a 950 looks like a VT100, but narrower.
When the terminal is just sitting there with stuff on
the screen, no data is
being sent or received... it will suddenly flip to a "previous screen" all
by itself. I don't know if the terminal supports multiple pages of display
memory, but the symptom is as if it does support multiple display memory and
spontaneously all by itself it switches pages and I see data on the screen
that came by a while ago.
I don't _think_ the 910 supports pages of memory, but the 950 does. If
this is doing it without you pressing any keys, I'd suspect the termcap
or terminfo entries not being matched to the terminal, though that would
be odd as well, as the 950 doesn't emulate anything else. Both manuals
are online.
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Paul
6:50 a.m.
Paul wrote...
They can't be confused -- a 910 looks like an
ADM-3A (but squarer, not
as cute) and a 950 looks like a VT100, but narrower.
Ok, it's a 950 then, cause
it looks VERY much like a vt100, could be
mistaken for one at first blush.
I don't _think_ the 910 supports pages of memory,
but the 950 does. If
this is doing it without you pressing any keys, I'd suspect the termcap
or terminfo entries not being matched to the terminal, though that would
be odd as well, as the 950 doesn't emulate anything else. Both manuals
are online.
It's definitely not getting any control/escape sequences from the
host that
are causing this, it's just doing it on it's own so I doubt termcap/terminfo
has anything to do with it (specially since I'm running it on a TSB system,
not unix) :) I'm using it as the system console, and I'm quite sure the host
isn't sending any characters to it when it switches. Gotta be a hardware
issue.
So anyone have a spare main logic board for a 950? (I can hear Tony
shuddering from here)
Jay West
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