Re: One swift kick cures all

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From: camp... Larry Campbell
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 23:53

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Anyone who has ever used what I believe was DEC's first video terminal,
the VT05, probably remembers that the display often got flaky, and you
could almost *always* fix it by punching the right side of the terminal,
hard.  Apparently the backplane (yes, it took multiple cards to implement
this uppercase-only wonder) had cheap connectors and you just needed to
jiggle the cards occasionally.

The worst part of the VT05 was that it was so long it couldn't fit straight
on standard desks -- a real blunder.  It also weighed about half a ton...
-- 
Larry Campbell                          The Boston Software Works, Inc.
camp...@redsox.bsw.com                 120 Fulton Street
wjh12!redsox!campbell                   Boston, MA 02109

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From: camp...@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell)
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Subject: Re: One swift kick cures all
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Date: 22 Dec 89 23:53:47 GMT
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