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Article #1883Re: Goofy DEC terminal to eia232 question.
From: Eric Volpe
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1988 04:24
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1988 04:24
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In article <163@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) writes: >this kind of console television washing machine thing, and instead of >a semi-standard serial port, we find current loop terminals. Well, current loop used to *be* the standard! Well, at least it wasn't considered "Goofy"! Maybe the vt50 is a bit old, o.k. but don't knock the old stuff... CL is still used a lot even now... Anyway, you can get a converter for rs232 <--> CL from someplace like black box or one of those kinds of dealers. It's actually pretty simple to convert it yourself. I had to make a converter once myself to connect a vt52 to an rs232 port, but I've forgotten how I did it... Mail me if you want and I can try to dig up some clues... Eric Volpe ...decvax!yale!spock!eric ...attmail!hamdenns!3bee2!volpe
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!yale!spock!eric From: eric@spock.UUCP (Eric Volpe) Newsgroups: comp.terminals Subject: Re: Goofy DEC terminal to eia232 question. Keywords: I know this must get asked often, but... Message-ID: <230@spock.UUCP> Date: 11 Jan 88 04:24:35 GMT References: <163@flatline.UUCP> Reply-To: eric@spock.UUCP (Eric Volpe) Organization: Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford CT Lines: 14