29 Jan
2003
29 Jan
'03
4:31 p.m.
I would be really curious to know how this thing works (or worked if the
service is no longer available.) The disks I have are for the PC or AT
and are on 5 1/4" floppies (probably 360K). I'll copy them onto a 3 1/2"
disk and bring it with me at the end of the month. If you have a power
supply with yours, what is the polarity (if not AC) and voltage?
Has anyone on the list actually used one of these things?
Mike Ford wrote:
At 05:31 PM 1/29/03 -0800, Marvin Johnston wrote:
Mike, I have what I *think* is the same thing, and
it is copyright 1986;
he was looking for pre 1984 or so. If you need copies of the software,
*assuming* the software I have is good, it won't be a problem. I can
bring it to TRW late this month.
Anyone know what frequency this works on, and if the supporting
transmitter is still on the air? It indicated this was a subscription
service, and I would be most interested to know how they enforced that.
Mike Ford wrote:
>
> At 11:46 PM 1/21/03 -0500, Jim Keohane wrote:
> > Looking for handheld quote device, ticker display or any peripheral
> > for IBM PC, Apple ][, etc. to pick up ticker broadcast via FM Broadcast
> > or geosynchronous satellite broadcast. Does not necessarilly have to be
> > functioning. User manual would be great.
>
> I have a Lotus box, but no software or paperwork.
>
> Lotus FM Receiver
Mine has three ports on the back, antenna via coax F connector, serial DB25
thing, and BNC (data out, could ethernet maybe?).
What platform do you have software for, and sure. ;) That will give me a
good excuse to get my bones out to TRW.
I think this type of device used sidebands of commercial broadcast
frequencies, but I haven't looked inside, or hooked up an antenna to see
what happens.
No real guess on the pay/data controls, could be software, could be serial
number related activation key broadcast in middle of data etc.