IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

[Glen Slick]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Jason T via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 10:49 AM, Chris Elmquist via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> Maybe there's some relationship to the SGI dial boxes??  I have an SGI
>> one but don't know anything about the IBM ones.  They were built by
>> Danaher and Seiko and both SGI and Sun offered those models...
>
> I have seen the same dial box, as well as the "Button Box" and
> possibly the CAD puck with the crosshairs, for HP and, IIRC, Sun
> systems.  It's a fair bet they're all based on the same models.
>

I have an HP branded dial box, an A4362A. It looks identical front and
back to the photos of the SGI DLS80-1022 on Wikipedia. I have the
stand for it, but seem to be missing the two brackets that screw on to
the back of the case to hold the stand in place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial_box#/media/File:SGI_dialbox_DLS80-1022_front.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial_box#/media/File:SGI_dialbox_DLS80-1022_back.jpg