G'day,
I have one of these beasties sitting around - they're a mid-late 1970's
design I believe (the only date I can find on it however is the copyright on
the PCB for the powersupply - 1971).
At first glance, it does appear to work - powers up and screen glows a
wonderfull cliche green. Serial cord connected and send data to it... no
effect. :(
So, has anyone ever setup one of these things to work as a terminal to a
common garden PC (linux user I am)? Might the screen have burnt out and it
simply is unable to display anything I send to it anyways? Does it need a
straight-through or null-modem serial connection? Do I need to send an
initialisation string to it before it'll accept and display any data?
None of these things I know, and trial and error problem solving can be
frustrating, especially if other problems prevent them from being solved
that way! ;)
btw, I have a few cheap webcam shots of the thing, and can get them on a
webpage, if anyone is interested in seeing the thing.
.../Nemo
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Received on Wed Jan 03 2001 - 15:51:16 GMT