WYSE-60 Dumb Terminal CRT - ghosting/trails ? \ VOGONS

WYSE-60 Dumb Terminal CRT - ghosting/trails ?

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First post, by vom513

Posted on 2022-06-20, 19:07

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*** Hopefully this post is okay for this forum. I'm new here and it looks like most things are PC related. I figured folks here would know their way around CRTs though. ***

Hello,

This is a WYSE-60 dumb terminal - "paper white" video color. It seems like there is excessive ghosting or "trails". See this video, take note of the right hand side (file names scrolling).

https://imgur.com/a/UhFvTGG

I had this exact model of terminal (but a different unit) > 20 years ago, and I never remember ghosting like this. Is this just normal for something of this age ? Is there some component that could be replaced or adjusted to mitigate or solve this ?

Thanks.

Reply 1 of 2, by mustagcoupe

Posted on 2022-06-21, 23:29

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Probably bad capacitors somewhere on one of the boards.

Reply 2 of 2, by pentiumspeed

Posted on 2022-06-21, 23:59

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This is normal for a long persistent phosphors for this. Move cursor around back and forth sideways, will show this too and blinking will show that too.

Very sharp too.

Cheers,

Great Northern aka Canada.

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