I cleared my bench and had a look at both units at the same time. They had both been stored under fairly harsh conditions in a shed. A pool pump was nearby so i thought they may have suffered from a corrosive atmosphere but they seemed fine except for the aluminium badges which were a bit pitted. One of the badges was Lexitron, and the other was Raytheon.
I think that i can say with some certainty that i’m the only person is Australia with three of these. For sensible people, that would be three too many.
The inside of the machines looked remarkably familiar.
There were very few differences between the VT1303 and the VT202.
This board was not present in the VT1303. I’m not sure what it is but i suspect it is used to share one printer between two machines.
Nothing looked awry in either of the machines.
All the drives required work. The rails had rusted but were easy to remove, and they cleaned up ok – just a little pitting. I checked them with imagedisk and after a little exercise they were all good except one which has a broken and, apparently, non-functional index sensor. I have a spare SA400 drive, so its day had come.
The CRTs on both machines had cataracts. I remedied one in the same way as i remedied the VT1303. The other will just be spares machine. I don’t need three of these behemoths ready to go.