Great, my VT52 is shot.

Jon Elson elson at pico-systems.com
Thu Apr 16 18:18:47 CDT 2020


On 04/15/2020 07:23 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
> Wonderful: A few weeks ago I forgot to turn off my VT52 
> and left it running for a day or two. Now the screen is 
> filled with snow and it looks like the text is all over 
> the place horozontally.
>
> Any tips or thoughts on where to start looking to fix? The 
> keyboard seems to be working as does the RS232 input (the 
> snow on the screen changes when the pdp11 talks to it)
>
Unseat and replug all connectors for a first start.  Your 
description sounds like the monitor may not be getting sync 
from the display generator board.

Jon


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