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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 03:07:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   on a scale of 1 to WE COPYRIGHTED THE FUCKING PLASTIC CASE OF OUR DUMB TERMINAL, how many layers of IP law are you on?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 03:11:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it's a well known fact that injection-molding piracy was rampant back in the Reagan era

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 03:50:27 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     dang it. I did a decent job cleaning up this part of the case but I accidentally put it down the wrong way and damaged a clip. I'm gonna have to shim & glue it to have it attach properly

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 03:55:19 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • ROTOPE~1 :yell:

     @rotopenguin THIS IS A PHYSICAL OBJECT FROM 1986

     IN WHAT WAY IS IT DIGITAL OR MILLENIUM

   • ROTOPE~1 :yell: (rotopenguin@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 03:55:20 JST ROTOPE~1 :yell:

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     @foone worse than that, you're going to have to commit 𝑐𝑜𝑝𝑦𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 to fix it

   • ROTOPE~1 :yell: (rotopenguin@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 03:55:20 JST ROTOPE~1 :yell:

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     @foone stop right there! This is a DMCA bust!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 04:03:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     This is going to take forever to clean. I basically can only clean one channel at once with a cotten bud, and even that is tricky

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 05:06:49 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     significantly cleaner! qtips, paper towels + spudger, and toothbrushing it got basically all of it.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 05:10:28 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     they didn't remove the little peely plastic protective film! This thing is from 1986! that's 38 years of PEELING LEFT UNDONE!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 05:18:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • :biromantic_asexualflag::demiboy_flag::pentacon:

     @instereo256 great question. Going by their old magazine ads, I think they were always kinda brownish? the front is a whitish-beige, which has definitely yellowed, but I think this darker brown-grey part has always been that way

   • :biromantic_asexualflag::demiboy_flag::pentacon: (instereo256@realworldsunny.name)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 05:18:47 JST :biromantic_asexualflag::demiboy_flag::pentacon:

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     @foone@digipres.club was it always this brown-ish or is it a UV protective sticker (mostly joking)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 05:21:40 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Josh Ourisman :apple_old_logo:

     @joshourisman well this belonged to Lucasfilm, so... yeah.

   • Josh Ourisman :apple_old_logo: (joshourisman@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 05:21:41 JST Josh Ourisman :apple_old_logo:

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     @foone what sort of monsters were these people?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 06:09:15 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Stormgren
     • :biromantic_asexualflag::demiboy_flag::pentacon:

     @Stormgren @instereo256 nah, but thanks!

     fun fact: I'm currently repairing & restoring two Wyse terminals: This one is a WY-30+, but the other is a WY-60!

   • Stormgren (stormgren@obsidianmoon.com)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 06:09:16 JST Stormgren

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     • :biromantic_asexualflag::demiboy_flag::pentacon:

     @foone @instereo256 I have two wy-60 sitting in the basement in good shape, i can get pics when I get back from Chicago on Friday and send over if it would help

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 06:53:18 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     They clearly used this machine in the famous lucasfilm Dust Factory

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 08:36:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     So I resoldered the couple of questionable caps and put it partially back together, but it's still got the RAM issues. I was kinda hoping the caps would alleviate that problem.

     I still can't get into the testing mode since I don't have a keyboard for this specific unit, so I can't figure out which memory chip it is that's failed (and there's like 5 on the PCB)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 15:02:10 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Darn. I soldered in my new caps on my other terminal, and it's still got no vertical deflection.
     I'm gonna have to dig into the service manual more and maybe do some oscilloscoping.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 15:40:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     dang it. I have to copies of the WY30 manual. One is badly scanned, and the other... is missing the one page I need.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 15:45:53 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Miod Vallat

     @miodvallat yeah, that's where I got 'em

   • Miod Vallat (miodvallat@hostux.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 15:45:54 JST Miod Vallat

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     @foone I suppose http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/wyse/WY-30/ didn't help?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 15:53:23 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     The good news is that the vertical deflection is built around the TDA1170N, an ST chip for generating vertical deflection for monochrome CRTs. And I've got a datasheet for that, so I can figure out what's going wrong from there

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 13:30:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • VK2TTY

     @vk2tty I don't, sadly. They've encrypted/compressed their firmware so I can't easily get into it

   • VK2TTY (vk2tty@mastodon.radio)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 13:30:09 JST VK2TTY

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     @foone ooh ooh ooh I don’t suppose you know where I could find all the WYSE font bitmaps so I could emulate some of this beauty?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 13:31:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Felice

     @Felice yeah. I've not tried adjusting those yet, as I'd need to leave it on to do that, and I don't want to burn a line into this CRT

   • Felice (felice@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 13:31:56 JST Felice

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     @foone It might be worth noting that you don't seem to have full horizontal deflection either.

     Though I guess that could just be due to accidentally turning an H.SIZ (or whatever) dial. Does it have H/V size dials?