On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:15:47PM +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
> > The DEC DLV11-J, a 4 port unbuffered SLU had a clock I/O pin on it's Berg
> > connector.
>
> That pin was commonly used with a DEC current loop converter module, the
> number of which I forget (DLV11-K ???). That box plugged into the DLV11-J
> at one side and had an 8 pin Mate-n-lock on the other to connect to a
> standard DEC current loop cable. It also included a 110 baud (1760Hz)
> generator, since the DLV11 couldn't do 110 baud as standard and the most
> common reason for wanting a current loop interface was to connect to an
> ASR33.
Hmm... I might have one of those that I picked up at Dayton a few years
back. Didn't know it had a special feature for the DLV11-J. I thought
it was just a dumb level converter (obviously it should work with any
device that can do 110 bps by itself).
-ethan
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