11 Feb
2007
11 Feb
'07
7:43 p.m.
On Feb 11, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Had a good day at the Mansfield Hamfest today. I now
have some LCD
monitors that I need to scope out power for (+5 @ 2A, +12 @ 1A), a
nixie-tube panel DVM, and a couple of IBM modem frontpanels.
Oh now that's a damn good idea. Those modems are all over the
place. I think I will have to grab a couple of those myself! :)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
From googling the IBM model number (7861-015),
they appear to be from
a 9600bps 4-wire leased-line modem. I picked them up
because they
have a 20-key keypad with double-shot hex letters (0-9, A-F) that look
really handy for attaching to an 1802 or similar, and a 1x16 char
"british flag" VFD. What I'd really like is to get my hands on a
schematic to skip the step of reverse-engineering the VFD drivers.