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VT Keyboard kills Wyse85 / VT220 Kills Wyse Keyboard?

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From: r krishnan
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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