DEC VRE01 terminal documentation

[Paul Koning]

You may want to see if the PLATO terminal documentation is any help, look on Bitsavers under University of Illinois.  Those plasma display power supplies are hairy devices; the panel is actually a memory device and the power supply produces a high voltage AC waveform to make that work.  Those panels normally light up around the rim; the fact you see that briefly but not sustained gives some hope that adjusting may be all that is needed.

That's quite a display; the usual plasma panels were 8 inches square, 512 by 512 pixels.  I'm guessing this is a 1k by 1k pixel display, which I have seen once or twice, at SAI in San Diego in some military displays.

I know a plasma terminal expert; I've forwarded your message to him.

	paul

> On Aug 13, 2020, at 3:23 PM, Tom Uban via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> I have a DEC VRE01 terminal that I bought NIB years ago. For those who don't know about this model,
> it has a flat plasma (orange/black) display of about 17". It worked when I bought it, but now, years
> later, I tried powering it up and the light comes on for a moment and goes out. I suspect a power
> supply issue, but bitsavers does not seem to have this one.
> 
> Does anyone have schematic (or other) documentation for it?
> 
> --tnx
> --tom