Lotus Signal Receiver, was Re: QUOTE or TICKER

From: Marvin Johnston <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Thu Jan 30 00:31:00 2003

I would be really curious to know how this thing works (or worked if the
service is no longer available.) The disks I have are for the PC or AT
and are on 5 1/4" floppies (probably 360K). I'll copy them onto a 3 1/2"
disk and bring it with me at the end of the month. If you have a power
supply with yours, what is the polarity (if not AC) and voltage?

Has anyone on the list actually used one of these things?

Mike Ford wrote:
>
> At 05:31 PM 1/29/03 -0800, Marvin Johnston wrote:
> >Mike, I have what I *think* is the same thing, and it is copyright 1986;
> >he was looking for pre 1984 or so. If you need copies of the software,
> >*assuming* the software I have is good, it won't be a problem. I can
> >bring it to TRW late this month.
> >
> >Anyone know what frequency this works on, and if the supporting
> >transmitter is still on the air? It indicated this was a subscription
> >service, and I would be most interested to know how they enforced that.
> >
> >Mike Ford wrote:
> > >
> > > At 11:46 PM 1/21/03 -0500, Jim Keohane wrote:
> > > > Looking for handheld quote device, ticker display or any peripheral
> > > > for IBM PC, Apple ][, etc. to pick up ticker broadcast via FM Broadcast
> > > > or geosynchronous satellite broadcast. Does not necessarilly have to be
> > > > functioning. User manual would be great.
> > >
> > > I have a Lotus box, but no software or paperwork.
> > >
> > > Lotus FM Receiver
>
> Mine has three ports on the back, antenna via coax F connector, serial DB25
> thing, and BNC (data out, could ethernet maybe?).
>
> What platform do you have software for, and sure. ;) That will give me a
> good excuse to get my bones out to TRW.
>
> I think this type of device used sidebands of commercial broadcast
> frequencies, but I haven't looked inside, or hooked up an antenna to see
> what happens.
>
> No real guess on the pay/data controls, could be software, could be serial
> number related activation key broadcast in middle of data etc.
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