IBM 6094-020 Lighted Program Function Keys

[Dave McGuire]

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. :-(

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL