13 Apr
2005
13 Apr
'05
6:18 p.m.
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:30:07 -0700 (PDT)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Jay West wrote:
Just be glad that one of us who worships General Radio ('GenRad'-
pish!!) gear and who is 'in the money' didn't happen along.
Rumor has it that General Radio MIGHT have ONCE made a piece of gear
somewhere that wasn't cool.
Sellam wrote....
Mine was different. It was actually made by the company that wrote
the C serial library I used in my telecom system. It was called
something generic like "Serial Data Analyzer". I'm not sure if I
ended up with the cable.
At any rate, I ended up with a very nice datacomm analyzer made by
GenRad(?) I think. I'll check when I get home. I had it out for sale
at a local ham fest last month but then realized how cool it was and
jacked up the price to some ridiculous level so that I'd either get an
unnatural buttload of cash for it or would get to take it home. I'm
glad I got to take it home :)
I used a PC-based software scope that worked
fairly well. And
yes, it was a definite must-have for any serious serial-based
development work.
Yup, and I still have it too. It was called "BreakOut II", and did
come with a Y cable. You can't just solder up a Y cable, as I recall
some diodes were required. I'm sure I still have the cable here
somewhere too.
However, the PC software just isn't as cool as a real datascope :)
Not to mention, even though BreakOut II was the big commercial
product at the time I bought it, it surely doesn't come close to the
nicety of the real datascope either.