12 Apr
2005
12 Apr
'05
5:42 a.m.
At 11:42 PM 4/11/05 -0400, Allison wrote:
for
Steve Robertson has a working Atlantic Research datascope. He picked it
up at the Orlando Hamfest a couple of years ago and I THINK he got the
manual for it also. You might check with him.
Joe
Subject: Re:
Navtel 9460 Protocol Analyzer info?
From: "Jay West" <jwest at classiccmp.org>
>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 >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.
I happen to have a Atlantic Research Inc, serial datascope. It contains
several boards [std bus z80, rom/ram card, CRT5027 based crt controller Card]
however no manual. Someday I'll track down at least a schematic and fix
the CRT. The boards say T-bar on them so the instument may even be from
another company with the ACI label. It would be fun to get it operational.
Allison