need some info on some sort of pocket terminal

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Wed Sep 17 04:22:57 2003

At 06:14 PM 9/16/03 +0200, Ed wrote:


>This one is apparently made by Gr Electronics, who were based in the UK
>and in the US.
>This is based on the fact that is says 'GR 185-2' on the board.
>I searched Google, but I couldn't find any info.
>
>As the housing was loose, I opened it, and it uses an Intel 8048
>microcontroller, has 8
>character and has a curled cable which has a DB25 connector at the end.
>The cable has 7 wires, and when the battery door is opened (this device
>get's it power


Sounds like a device that I have seen for doing inventory and stock
checking, db25 could be for a bar code or? Anyway people go up and down the
aisles in markets with them filling in sku and quantity, periodically
docking to download the data into some host.
Received on Wed Sep 17 2003 - 04:22:57 BST