[ On Saturday, June 7, 2003 at 09:36:55 (-0400), phufnagel wrote: ]
> Subject: ELC/SLC diskless station question
>
> We have a few diskless ELC/SLC workstations at work, all of which
> died after many years from the video going out (I believe the CPU is
> functional, but most of them the display is either out or so dim as to be
> unusable).   I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience fixing them
> or would have any interest in them if I *did* grab them and fix them?

Almost certainly the ones that are completely dead have dried out
electrolytic capacitors.  Unfortunately it's common for such failures to
cascade to other components as well.

> If not, I'd think about grabbing the CPU boards and letting the rest get
> trashed, and maybe running them just off the serial port with a rigged up
> power supply.  They do have serial and external SCSI ports.

That would be an excellent idea!  ;-)

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