Wyse-60 Question

[rcman2]

I have a wyse-60 terminal, seems to work fine but I noticed that the top left corner has some very small characters on it. Anyone know if it needs adjustment or something else?

Thanks
Franco

 

[justin423]

Like other than FDX CAPS?

 

[rcman2]

You can see them in the upper left.

 

[justin423]

Try reseating the ram chips by pushing on them.

 

[rcman2]

Try reseating the ram chips by pushing on them.

Thanks

 

[justin423]

Thanks

is your vertical set correctly?
usually you will see the settings at the top of the screen.

 

[rcman2]

It might need to be adjusted, when I have the menu open it doesn’t look right either.

 

[MiaM]

Is it just the upper left corner, or is it all of the top of the display?

It kind of looks like all rows at the bottom are too tall.

Maybe print a test pattern that displays every other character as something that takes up as much space as possible (ideally an inverted space character) and the other characters as blanks, filling the screen (except the lower right corner if printing there would cause the display to scroll), and take a photo of it.

Judging by what I see on your pictures it's a pure analogue issue in the CRT electronics. Reseating RAMs or whatnot will likely not do any difference.

Generic tip: Repair of the CRT electronics is usually more or less the same as repairing old CRT TVs so if you don't end up with any good advice here you might want to ask in some forum that is more about TVs (unless they don't want computer related stuff in their forum).

 

[rcman2]

Is it just the upper left corner, or is it all of the top of the display?

It kind of looks like all rows at the bottom are too tall.

Maybe print a test pattern that displays every other character as something that takes up as much space as possible (ideally an inverted space character) and the other characters as blanks, filling the screen (except the lower right corner if printing there would cause the display to scroll), and take a photo of it.

Judging by what I see on your pictures it's a pure analogue issue in the CRT electronics. Reseating RAMs or whatnot will likely not do any difference.

Generic tip: Repair of the CRT electronics is usually more or less the same as repairing old CRT TVs so if you don't end up with any good advice here you might want to ask in some forum that is more about TVs (unless they don't want computer related stuff in their forum).

The funny thing is when I’m using it it seems fine. I mean normal characters do fill the screen in that area. It’s just odd that it shows up that way.

I’ve tried resetting the terminal, that didn’t help. I have tried changing the width and character size seems to make no difference.

As you can see from the screenshot below when text is there that ghost text isn’t.

 

[MiaM]

Oh, well then I kind of take back what I previously said.

 

[rcman2]

But you can see that smaller text below the large font. I guess I could check a few things. Either way it works and I’m happy considering I paid $26 dollars for it