On 8/11/2006 at 2:25 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
A bit, but not much. They don't even say all that much about just what
the darn thing does.
Well, since I was digging for the WDC LCD thingie, and didn't find it, I
should mention that I found a brief description of the Ad-Con boards. Here
goes:
AdCom2-M
128K Bytes RAM
2 serial ports
Data encryption
Synchronous mainframe link
Async, Bisync, HDLC, SDLC, X.25 terminal/protocol emulation
Introduced 1984, Cost $850
This, oddly, was not the high-end model. The AdCom2-I had double the
memory, was introduced in 1985 and was priced at $1495. Software was
included with each board. There was also a plane-Jane AdCom2 with a
printer port, clock/calendar and 64K of RAM, no encryption, introduced in
1983 and listed at $275.
Given the correct spelling of the thing (or at least how the field knew
it), I find references in:
http://www.gwg.nga.mil/ntb/baseline/software/TACO2.html
http://www.mcamafia.de/mcapage0/mca.dat
http://sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/sun-info/sunspots/v10n96
http://www.textfiles.com/internet/vendors1.txt
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Chuck