[comp.sys.dec.micro] Rainbow flickering screen

D-ROGERS@edwards-2060.arpa (03/22/88)

Subject: Re: Flickering Rainbow Screen

Tony Movshon, acf8!movshon@nyu.edu, writes:
>I've never found a DEC service tech
>willing to go inside the monitor; they just replace 'em. Comes from
>being trained on 5-volt electronics, I guess.

	Actually, it comes from having no parts nor schematics
available for troubleshooting and repair.  VR201's are a depot
maintenance item.  Even VT100's and 220's are only repaired to
the modular level by DEC Field Service.  I sympathize with the
problem, i have it too, and i'm IN dec field service.
			[dale]

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