[vcf-midatlantic] replacing mono display DEC Rainbow

Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu at gmail.com
Wed Apr 19 11:50:58 EDT 2017


By screen rot you mean "crt cataracts"? That's fixable, though somewhat 
complicated to do...

On 4/19/2017 11:19 AM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> Anyone replace the mono display of the dec rainbow with a VT220 (or..)?
> The two VR201s I have screen rot.  VR201 is the part number of the display
> that comes with the Rainbow.  I can't be the first person to ask this
> questionj, most VR201's are pretty screen-rotted now.   I am guessing it
> will take some doing to assuming the cable between the display and the
> computer is not a straight serial connection.
>
> In the meantime I will work on this and let you know what I find.  There is
> a VR201 on Ebay for $100.
>
> b
>

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