12 Apr
2005
12 Apr
'05
5:38 a.m.
At 09:37 PM 4/11/05 -0500, Jay wrote:
I can't believe that you don't already have one if you want one. They
show up all the time around here. I've passed up a lot of the simple ones
(Atlantic Research, etc). This one does everything you mention below and
then some. It has a full keyboard and can emulater a VT-100 or simple ASCII
terminal. I'll probably use it for that most of the time. It also has the
menu driven programming language, that's the main thing that I want a
manual for. Cost = $0.00. No cables with it but it looks like it uses
standard DB-25 cables for RS-232. It has a ribbon cable connector to
connect to the V.35 connector box (you can see one in the E-bay picture). I
didn't get that either but I don't have anything that uses V.35.
Joe
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Joe wrote...
> 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.
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.
Anyways... one thing to watch out for. As I've been halfway mildly looking
for one, I've noticed a lot of the units on ebay (being different brands
than what I used) are often wired via an external module for only certain
types of connections. Be careful that the one you're looking at may ONLY do
V.35. It may not do something more useful like RS232.
Jay