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Article #975VT Keyboard kills Wyse85 / VT220 Kills Wyse Keyboard?
From: r krishnan
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 10:20
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 10:20
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I had a WORKING Wyse 85 and a dead vt220.
I swapped the keyboards on the terminals to see if they worked.
They did not.
Problem : When I hooked the wyse keyboard back to the wyse terminal,
the terminal seems totally ignorant of any keypress except
the 0 key in Numeric keypad which seems to generate some garbage.
However, the status line comes on the terminal when powered on.
Diagnosis 1 : Probably the vt220 keyboard screwed up the wyse 85 settings?
More fun : I tried the same wyse keyboard on the other working wyse 85
terminal and now it too shows the same problem!
Diagnosis 2 : Probably the vt220 terminal screwed up the wyse keyboard?
So, is it likely that the wrong keyboard confused the terminals ?
Did the wrong terminals screw up the keyboards ?
Is there any way to diagnose the problem or reset the terminals/keyboards ?
PS : The Wyse 85 terminals have a "TEST" socket in them.
What is it for? How do I use it to debug/reset the confused terminal?
Does anyone have a Wyse 85 operation/repair manual? I would be glad to pay
the postage and expenses for copy.
Thanks a bunch!!
--
Ramaswamy Krishnan kg@myan.uc.edu
(513) 281-7695 University of Cincinnati
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Newsgroups: comp.terminals Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!babbage.ece.uc.edu!quest.ece.uc.edu!rkrishna From: rkrishna@quest.ece.uc.edu (r krishnan) Subject: VT Keyboard kills Wyse85 / VT220 Kills Wyse Keyboard? Message-ID: <1992Oct3.102016.8626@babbage.ece.uc.edu> Followup-To: comp.terminals Keywords: dead wyse Sender: rkrishna@quest.ece.uc.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: quest.ece.uc.edu Reply-To: kg@myan.uc.edu Organization: Unversity of Cincinnati Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 10:20:16 GMT Lines: 36