Help! Zenith Z29 going bonkers

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From: Tamal Mukherjee
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 1991 21:02

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Hi,

After coming back from a short vacation, I noticed that all of a sudden,
spurious characters were cropping up on my Z29 terminal.  When I type
something over them they have a tendency to do one of the following:
	- display the typed character in correct case
	- display the typed character in the wrong case
	- display the char whose ascii value is 15 less than that of the
	  typed character.
	- and so on...

Also, these occur randomly all over the screen, making it difficult to use
the terminal.  I believe that there is something wrong with some RAM 
that stores the characters that are being currently displayed.  Does anyone
have any ideas about fixing this ?

Thanks in advance,

Tamal Mukherjee

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From: tamal@cougar.ece.cmu.edu (Tamal Mukherjee)
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Subject: Help! Zenith Z29 going bonkers
Summary: How do I fix the ASCII char masking process ?
Keywords: Zenith Z29
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Date: 12 Jan 91 21:02:23 GMT
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