Anyone know anything about old TEC Terminals?

[Richard]

In article <200706021417.36077.rtellason at verizon.net>,
    "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net>  writes:

> On Thursday 31 May 2007 17:56, Rick Bensene wrote:
> > =A0It has a DB-25 RS-232 connector apparently for hooking up to a compu=
> ter,
> > =A0but I don't know if it's wired as DTE or DCE.
> 
> Radio shack used to sell a small tester with 25 pin male and female conne=
> ctors=20
> on each end,  had something like 7 bicolor LEDs on it.  I found mine thro=
> ugh=20
> some surplus outfit years ago at about half the price,  and find it=20
> invalualble for answering questions like this...

I just picked up one of these off ebay recently for like $5.  It has a
nice little character chart for EBCDIC, ASCII and baudot, does current
loop as well as RS-232 and has a cyclic character generator to create
a repeating cycle of test characters.
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