[rescue] Help ressurecting a "dead" Wyse 60 terminal...

[Dave McGuire]

On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 02:49 PM, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> Heh.  Your bit of toxic waste is just comatose.  Mine's really dead.  A
> friend gave me a "put away working" television set a week or so ago.  
> I took
> it home, plugged it in, and switched it on.  There was a pause, a short
> sizzle, a loud BANG, then lots of smoke.

   Sounds like a dried-up electrolytic capacitor.

> So, what was, for a moment, the promise of entertainment and education 
> is
> now a disposal problem ....

   Ahh, this is the case with SO many things...and even some people. ;)

> I'd love to pitch mine, but no one in the county will take an old TV or
> anything else with a CRT in it.

   At night, strip mall dumpsters are your friends.

       -Dave

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