9 Oct
2025
9 Oct
'25
6:24 p.m.
On 2025-10-09 13:34, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
I was poking around eBay and up came a listing for a
DEC "mini exchange", DFMSA. What is that? The name doesn't sound familiar.
It looks like a box with a bunch of DB25 connectors on the back, but that doesn't help
much.
paul
I had one once. AFAIR it is just a serial switch to access different
peripherals from one port on the CPU. Possibly switchable by control
sequences. That was 35 years ago though so I am not sure of setails!
cheers
Nigel
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