Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!ucbvax!daemon From: harry@ucbarpa Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: Datamedia DT80/1 terminal leakage Message-ID: <9886@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 06:29:19 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.9886 Posted: Wed Aug 14 06:29:19 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 04:58:20 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 29 From: harry@ucbarpa (Harry I. Rubin) In article <208@gymble.UUCP> neal@gymble.UUCP (Neal R. Vanderlipp) writes: >I'm a little perplexed by a leakage problem with my DT80/1-am. It's been >staining my desktop lately. I've had the terminal for three years (from >when the first -am model was introduced), and it just started leaking a few >weeks ago. It doesn't seem to be getting worse, but I'm concerned. >Any ideas? Oh oh, you've got a data leak. You are trying to run too much data through the terminal and you are losing information: excess bits just ooze out the bottom or sides. This is a fairly serious problem in that this stuff will not only stain your desk badly, but eventually starts to smell very bad (old information can get pretty powerful)! Larger disks or faster terminal lines can sometimes alleviate a data leak to some extent, depending on what is causing it, but when all else fails there is an old ``home remedy.'' Get a tray with grooves to channel the runoff, the sort of thing you buy to put under your kitchen dishrack to catch the drips can often be made to serve, or you can fake it with aluminum foil. Place your leaky terminal on the tray so that the leaking information will flow off the back of your desk and drip into ... the bit bucket you have placed behind your desk. Not only will this save your desk, but you can never tell when having a bucket of spare information around will come in handy. As I mentioned though, data spoils fairly quickly and bad data smells awful, so you'll have to empty the bucket every few days. Hope this helps you out. Good luck.