Navtel 9460 Protocol Analyzer info?

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On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Jay West 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
> > <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.

I used a PC-based software scope that worked fairly well.  And yes, it was
a definite must-have for any serious serial-based development work.

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