Memorex/Termiflex One-handed terminal?

From: Bill Richman <bill_r_at_inetnebr.com>
Date: Wed Nov 8 15:07:20 2000

Our mainframe guys recently got rid of some big hard drive chassis,
and in the process of cleaning up they were going to thow away (!) a
couple of little Memorex/Termiflex one-handed terminals that I've
lusted after ever since I saw the service engineer using them. I
think they're a 1 or 2-line LED dot-matrix display, and they have some
form of "chording" keyboard on the front. They terminate in a 9 pin
female DIN-like connector with some kind of twist-lock. I believe
they're RS-232, but was wondering if anyone could supply a pinout.
They also came with a cable with the same connector (also female) on
one end and a male DB-25 on the other, which is marked "RS-232 Modem
Interface". I'm guessing that you could plug in either one of these
terminals or a modem to the same connector on the disk controller. I
can always figure out the pin-out from that cable and give it a try,
but I'd like to make sure I'm not missing something vital (like a
TTL-to-RS232 adapter) that they might require, before I hook one up
wrong and fry it. (I know, I could open one of them up and see what
the cable connects to, but I'm being lazy. Besides, this way I get to
brag about them... ;-)




Bill Richman
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