IBM 6094-020 Lighted Program Function Keys

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2007, at 11:05 PM, Michael B. Brutman wrote:
>> I'm getting a little closer ..
>>
>> I have the power adapter now and the correct cabling.  This device 
>> communicates over the serial port, but I have no idea how to talk to 
>> it, and I haven't even been able to get it to transmit noise on the 
>> serial port to the host PC.  (I've tried a variety of bps rates.)
>>
>> Does anybody have IBM book SA23-2646-01 "Hardware Technical Reference: 
>> Options and Devices" ?  The protocol for speaking to this thing might 
>> be in there ...
>>
>> If anybody else has one connected to a PC RT or an old AIX box, it 
>> would be possible to reverse engineer the protocol by tapping the 
>> serial cable and watching what comes across.
>>
>> It's a neat looking piece of hardware - 32 buttons, each having a 
>> controllable indicator light.  But I'm getting grumpy because I have 
>> no idea how to feed it. :-(
> 
>   I have a few of those.  Really, really neat little boxes.  I've been 
> similarly unable to find out anything about them. :-(

I use one on a daily basis at work.

What do you want to know?

Peace...  Sridhar