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Well, someone is asking about a Wyse terminal... I might as well post about
my Visual 603s.

I have eight Visual 603s (which, I think, are nearly identical to Visual 601,
602, and 630 terminals, except for the keyboards and ROMs). I have had four
of them fail; the first one was returned under warranty and the video/power
supply board was replaced. One of the others has a dead video/power supply,
one has no video (the same board, I assume, just a different failure), and
one has a dead lithium cell used for backing up the parameter memory (not a
big problem).

Does anyone out there know what's causing the video board on these terminals
to go bad? If it's something simple and cheap, I'd like to avoid paying Visual
$200 (I think) each to fix them.

While I'm at it, what's the latest ROM version for the 603?

Thanks in advance,

Rick McTeague
System Programmer
Electrical Engineering Department
Speed Scientific School
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY  40292
(502) 588-7020

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