Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Repair workshop June 8?
There is a Sunday Workshop day. I did not see our usual "resident" CRT experts there on Saturday, so I don't know if any will be there on Sunday. That doesn't mean there aren't others in attendance who may have good CRT skills, but I'm not personally aware that the other attendees are or are not. I did see a few new faces, so there is a possibility some of them are good with CRT repair. But that's the cool thing about the Workshops. You can find a surprising array of knowledge and talent in this hobby. CRT component excluded, you may find others who could help you with the other circuitry in your 3153 terminal. It may be possible to "blindly" test the communications aspect of the device... talking to another terminal with the other connection responding to what you type. Maybe others who are attending the Workshop today will respond. Jeff Salzman VCF Steering Committee MARCH Workshop Manager On Sat, Jun 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM Hopkins, Justin via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Is it still on for tomorrow? If it is, is anyone going that is versed on old CRT's?
I have an IBM 3153 that is completely dead, that I picked up today and I am wondering if it is salvageable.
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Yeah, I don’t touch CRT’s, after hearing every vintage person say that there is one thing in hobby that can kill you (well, besides your wife…) and that is the voltages in a CRT… And after doing a presentation at VCF East on what to do with a collection after death, I don’t want to have a Memorial placard at next year’s VCF with a cause of death to be from electrocution while poking around an old CRT…haha. And I just plugged it in to listen for signs of life after I picked it up yesterday, so I know that it has the potential to be fully charged right now. (the person I bought it from is a business liquidator, and he has a large storage unit in Brick absolutely packed to the rafters with all kinds of obsolete business gear, including oddball stuff like microscopes that you would see in a high school classroom, (can you use those to read the markings on small chips, I am guessing not) but mostly things like network switches and PC’s that are less than a decade old. I should get him to send me some pictures of it, I didn’t recognize ¾ of the stuff in there. From: Jeff Salzman <jeff.salzman@vcfed.org> Sent: Sunday, June 8, 2025 7:48 AM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Hopkins, Justin <Justin.Hopkins@broadridge.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Repair workshop June 8? There is a Sunday Workshop day. I did not see our usual "resident" CRT experts there on Saturday, so I don't know if any will be there on Sunday. That doesn't mean there aren't others in attendance who may have good CRT ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart This Message Is From an External Sender This message came from outside your organization. ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerEnd There is a Sunday Workshop day. I did not see our usual "resident" CRT experts there on Saturday, so I don't know if any will be there on Sunday. That doesn't mean there aren't others in attendance who may have good CRT skills, but I'm not personally aware that the other attendees are or are not. I did see a few new faces, so there is a possibility some of them are good with CRT repair. But that's the cool thing about the Workshops. You can find a surprising array of knowledge and talent in this hobby. CRT component excluded, you may find others who could help you with the other circuitry in your 3153 terminal. It may be possible to "blindly" test the communications aspect of the device... talking to another terminal with the other connection responding to what you type. Maybe others who are attending the Workshop today will respond. Jeff Salzman VCF Steering Committee MARCH Workshop Manager On Sat, Jun 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM Hopkins, Justin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org<mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org>> wrote: Is it still on for tomorrow? If it is, is anyone going that is versed on old CRT's? I have an IBM 3153 that is completely dead, that I picked up today and I am wondering if it is salvageable. This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system.
It really is like repairing anything else. Common sense is always your best tool. But yes, a good voltmeter. You can do some voltage checks. If you have a diagram then you’re really set However, if you’re afraid of high voltage is, and you’ve never worked with them, I can understand, but it really isn’t as bad as you think and you’re not going to be touch the high voltage at all Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device.
On Jun 8, 2025, at 12:35 PM, Hopkins, Justin <Justin.Hopkins@broadridge.com> wrote:
Yeah, I don’t touch CRT’s, after hearing every vintage person say that there is one thing in hobby that can kill you (well, besides your wife…) and that is the voltages in a CRT… And after doing a presentation at VCF East on what to do with a collection after death, I don’t want to have a Memorial placard at next year’s VCF with a cause of death to be from electrocution while poking around an old CRT…haha. And I just plugged it in to listen for signs of life after I picked it up yesterday, so I know that it has the potential to be fully charged right now.
(the person I bought it from is a business liquidator, and he has a large storage unit in Brick absolutely packed to the rafters with all kinds of obsolete business gear, including oddball stuff like microscopes that you would see in a high school classroom, (can you use those to read the markings on small chips, I am guessing not) but mostly things like network switches and PC’s that are less than a decade old. I should get him to send me some pictures of it, I didn’t recognize ¾ of the stuff in there.
From: Jeff Salzman <jeff.salzman@vcfed.org> Sent: Sunday, June 8, 2025 7:48 AM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Hopkins, Justin <Justin.Hopkins@broadridge.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Repair workshop June 8?
There is a Sunday Workshop day. I did not see our usual "resident" CRT experts there on Saturday, so I don't know if any will be there on Sunday. That doesn't mean there aren't others in attendance who may have good CRT ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart This Message Is From an External Sender This message came from outside your organization. ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerEnd There is a Sunday Workshop day. I did not see our usual "resident" CRT experts there on Saturday, so I don't know if any will be there on Sunday. That doesn't mean there aren't others in attendance who may have good CRT skills, but I'm not personally aware that the other attendees are or are not. I did see a few new faces, so there is a possibility some of them are good with CRT repair.
But that's the cool thing about the Workshops. You can find a surprising array of knowledge and talent in this hobby. CRT component excluded, you may find others who could help you with the other circuitry in your 3153 terminal. It may be possible to "blindly" test the communications aspect of the device... talking to another terminal with the other connection responding to what you type.
Maybe others who are attending the Workshop today will respond.
Jeff Salzman VCF Steering Committee MARCH Workshop Manager
On Sat, Jun 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM Hopkins, Justin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org<mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org>> wrote: Is it still on for tomorrow? If it is, is anyone going that is versed on old CRT's?
I have an IBM 3153 that is completely dead, that I picked up today and I am wondering if it is salvageable.
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Actually, on a related note, there is a forum post on VCF Forums from months ago from VCF New England of someone looking for a CRT repair person in New England from around Boston or points north. To date, there was no response to that posting. So I was wondering, is there some kind of business directory for this? Someone like Chris Edwards for Amigas, but that services vintage CRT’s and are also located in the Northeastern US From: Jeff Salzman <jeff.salzman@vcfed.org> Sent: Sunday, June 8, 2025 7:48 AM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Hopkins, Justin <Justin.Hopkins@broadridge.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Repair workshop June 8? There is a Sunday Workshop day. I did not see our usual "resident" CRT experts there on Saturday, so I don't know if any will be there on Sunday. That doesn't mean there aren't others in attendance who may have good CRT ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart This Message Is From an External Sender This message came from outside your organization. ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerEnd There is a Sunday Workshop day. I did not see our usual "resident" CRT experts there on Saturday, so I don't know if any will be there on Sunday. That doesn't mean there aren't others in attendance who may have good CRT skills, but I'm not personally aware that the other attendees are or are not. I did see a few new faces, so there is a possibility some of them are good with CRT repair. But that's the cool thing about the Workshops. You can find a surprising array of knowledge and talent in this hobby. CRT component excluded, you may find others who could help you with the other circuitry in your 3153 terminal. It may be possible to "blindly" test the communications aspect of the device... talking to another terminal with the other connection responding to what you type. Maybe others who are attending the Workshop today will respond. Jeff Salzman VCF Steering Committee MARCH Workshop Manager On Sat, Jun 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM Hopkins, Justin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org<mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org>> wrote: Is it still on for tomorrow? If it is, is anyone going that is versed on old CRT's? I have an IBM 3153 that is completely dead, that I picked up today and I am wondering if it is salvageable. This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system.
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