Navtel 9460 Protocol Analyzer info?

[Jay West]

Joe wrote...
>   I found this today. Does anyone have a manual or any information on it?
> It looks very similar to this 9440 on E-bay
> <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=97190&item=750632019
> 5&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW>

Someday I'll pick up a "datascope" (aka serial protocol analyzer) cheap. I 
did a lot of serial communications programming in a prior life, and 
absolutely lived with a datascope. Not sure of the brand, but I remember is 
was blue. No keyboard in the real sense, but a data entry pad on the front. 
It was the most incredibly useful thing... you could program it to watch for 
a particular sequence of ascii characters, then start capturing data. One 
button would flip the display between ascii/ebcdic, hex, binary.. and it had 
a dual display mode where it showed transmit on top of the line and receive 
on the bottom of the line. It was a godsend. It had a breakout box built 
into it, could buffer to floppy, etc. It could also do sync & async.

Anyways... one thing to watch out for. As I've been halfway mildly looking 
for one, I've noticed a lot of the units on ebay (being different brands 
than what I used) are often wired via an external module for only certain 
types of connections. Be careful that the one you're looking at may ONLY do 
V.35. It may not do something more useful like RS232.

Jay