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Visual200 video burnout question

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From: Rob Cuthbertson
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 1990 23:48
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I just dug an old Visual 200 terminal out of the closet, and would like to have
it display on a small monitor.  The terminal has a Phono jack on the back 
marked as video out, but the display on that jack doesn't come up on my 
external monitor.  Thinking that my terminal had blown some component, I tried
the same setup with another motherboard, and got the same problem.  The video
out looks like a picture with the "horizontal hold" mis-adjusted.

My question(s) is(are) this:  Is this in fact a symptom of some fried 
component, or do these terminals have a different idea of what a video 
signal is supposed to look like?  Since the same problem seems to happen on
two of the terminals, I assume that it is a common problem, so does anyone
know what component(s) need to be replaced?

It's a pretty sad terminal, but if I can use the video out jack, I can stash
the thing behind a desk and just put the keyboard and monitor in view.  ;^)

Many thanks!
--Rob Cuthbertson, 
robc@uswat.uswest.com
rob@snoopy.colorado.edu
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From: robc@uswat.uswest.com (Rob Cuthbertson)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Visual200 video burnout question
Summary: old terminal no longer displays on video out jack
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Date: 2 Apr 90 23:48:19 GMT
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