Navtel 9460 Protocol Analyzer info?

[Joe R.]

At 09:37 PM 4/11/05 -0500, Jay wrote:
>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
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>Someday I'll pick up a "datascope" (aka serial protocol analyzer) cheap.

  I can't believe that you don't already have one if you want one. They
show up all the time around here. I've passed up a lot of the simple ones
(Atlantic Research, etc).  This one does everything you mention below and
then some. It has a full keyboard and can emulater a VT-100 or simple ASCII
terminal. I'll probably use it for that most of the time. It also has the
menu driven programming language, that's the main thing that I want a
manual for. Cost = $0.00. No cables with it but it looks like it uses
standard DB-25 cables for RS-232. It has a ribbon cable connector to
connect to the V.35 connector box (you can see one in the E-bay picture). I
didn't get that either but I don't have anything that uses V.35.

   Joe


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>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.
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>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.
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>Jay
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