Friendly reminder to any 5620 / BLIT owners...

Ethan Dicks ethan.dicks at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 20:32:54 CDT 2015


On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Ian Finder <ian.finder at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The battery in the teletype DMD 5620 is mounted in a very fatal position,
>> and does indeed leak, as I learned this weekend.
>
> Now I just need to find out why this Blit doesn't display anything
> when I power it on...

Ah ha!  Pulling the dead battery has brought the Blit back to life.
It passes self-tests and now is screaming "WAITING FOR KEYBOARD
STATUS".

Back to the search for a compatible keyboard.  Two, really, since I
also have a 730+ that needs one.

-ethan


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