Tony Duell declared on Wednesday 12 October 2005 10:56 am:
This reminds me of an IBM colour teerminal that I
rescued about 10
years ago. I didn't get the monitor (I can't rememebr if it simply
wasn't there, or if it was not going to be practically repairable).
The base unit was a plinth that fitted under the monitor, the keyboard
was somewhat PC-like, but IIRC with a different DIN plug to the PC
(maybe the 5 pin 240 degree one).
I seem to rememebr a very useful quick reference card slotted into it.
It gave the pinouts of the connctors (amongst other things). Not just
the comms connector, but also the monitor connector and even the
connector for the ROM cartridge. That gave most of the processor bus
signals, of course. I think the PSU was in the monitor, and powered
the logic side of things via the video cable. I can't remember if the
ICs were IBM-labelled or not, but I seem to rememebr there was enough
info on that card to work out much of it.
Somewhat suprisingly for IBM, it was an ASCII unit.
Are you sure about that? It sounds a lot like the coax or twinax
terminals that IBM made to go with 3270-controllers or AS/400s
(respectively). The ones I've seen which match your description had an
RS-232 for a printer connection, but did their main comms through the
coax or twinax port out the back. I guess it might be ASCII but
probably isn't an RS-232 terminal.
Pat
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