12 Apr
2005
12 Apr
'05
6:24 p.m.
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Jay West wrote:
Joe wrote...
I used a PC-based software scope that worked fairly well. And yes, it was
a definite must-have for any serious serial-based development work.
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I found this today. Does anyone have a manual
or any information on it?
It looks very similar to this 9440 on E-bay
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Someday I'll pick up a "datascope" (aka serial protocol analyzer) cheap. I
did a lot of serial communications programming in a prior life, and
absolutely lived with a datascope. Not sure of the brand, but I remember is
was blue. No keyboard in the real sense, but a data entry pad on the front.
It was the most incredibly useful thing... you could program it to watch for
a particular sequence of ascii characters, then start capturing data. One
button would flip the display between ascii/ebcdic, hex, binary.. and it had
a dual display mode where it showed transmit on top of the line and receive
on the bottom of the line. It was a godsend. It had a breakout box built
into it, could buffer to floppy, etc. It could also do sync & async.