VT420, only toasted - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Jul 2000

...
  Some of the units have a velcro attached glare screen,
most have a short
 dongle with a weird RJ11 socket. There were also a few VT320 displays, but
 I haven't looked that closely at them (same burnin look though). This
 Thursday will likely be my last chance at them, as a big load is coming in
 that day, and I will be in Silly Con Valley (yes really) next week (8/1 to
 8/3). 
The "dongle" is most likely one of many RS_232-to-twisted_pair adapters
that many sites use for connecting terminals to a comm system. I have a
few that use RJ-45s instead of RJ-11s; one end plugs into a serial port
on the comm system, then you run this preassembled phone-line-like cable
...
 from there to an identical unit plugged into the back
of the terminal. 
Drives my Wyse-50 very nicely on the Prime's ICS3 subsystem; at least,
it did when the Prime's PSU was working.  :-(

-doug q