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From: nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: WYSE-60 terminals die young...
Message-ID: <3176@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 26 Mar 89 05:56:47 GMT
References: <653@iex.UUCP> <5960005@hpfcdc.HP.COM> <3141@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <665@tcsc3b2.UUCP>
Reply-To: nvk@ddsw1.UUCP (Norman Kohn)
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM, Mundelein, IL
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In article <665@tcsc3b2.UUCP> pag@tcsc3b2.UUCP (Philip A. Gross) writes:
>...  We finally talked to a service manager at Wyse Tech. and we were 
>informed that a part (I believe the flyback transformer) has a rated
>life of approx.
>14000 hours.  Thus after a little more than a year of continuous 
>operation, one could expect the terminal to stop working.  He suggested
>that when possible, the users should turn their terminal off at the end
>of a day.  This would effectively extend the life of the terminal to over
>two years.

Sounds like the fancy new electronic typewriter that I just threw away
when it went dead... cost to fix is similar (hard to spend less these
days to get a piece of equipment onto someone's bench) but the
replacement costs little more.

I find that the whine on the wy-60 comes and goes if you push/pull
on the serial connector on the back.

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