Friendly reminder to any 5620 / BLIT owners...

Jacob Ritorto jacob.ritorto at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 20:38:34 CDT 2015


Dang Ethan!  What Ian said!  Get 'em out rtfn!

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 9:32 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Ian Finder <ian.finder at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> The battery in the teletype DMD 5620 is mounted in a very fatal
> position,
> >> and does indeed leak, as I learned this weekend.
> >
> > Now I just need to find out why this Blit doesn't display anything
> > when I power it on...
>
> Ah ha!  Pulling the dead battery has brought the Blit back to life.
> It passes self-tests and now is screaming "WAITING FOR KEYBOARD
> STATUS".
>
> Back to the search for a compatible keyboard.  Two, really, since I
> also have a 730+ that needs one.
>
> -ethan
>


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