24 Jul
2007
24 Jul
'07
12:23 a.m.
On Jul 23, 2007, at 11:05 PM, Michael B. Brutman wrote:
I'm getting a little closer ..
I have the power adapter now and the correct cabling. This device
communicates over the serial port, but I have no idea how to talk
to it, and I haven't even been able to get it to transmit noise on
the serial port to the host PC. (I've tried a variety of bps rates.)
Does anybody have IBM book SA23-2646-01 "Hardware Technical
Reference: Options and Devices" ? The protocol for speaking to
this thing might be in there ...
If anybody else has one connected to a PC RT or an old AIX box, it
would be possible to reverse engineer the protocol by tapping the
serial cable and watching what comes across.
It's a neat looking piece of hardware - 32 buttons, each having a
controllable indicator light. But I'm getting grumpy because I
have no idea how to feed it. :-(
I have a few of those. Really, really neat little boxes. I've
been similarly unable to find out anything about them. :-(
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL