Navtel 9460 Protocol Analyzer info?

[Joe R.]

At 11:42 PM 4/11/05 -0400, Allison wrote:
>>Subject: Re: Navtel 9460 Protocol Analyzer info?
>>   From: "Jay West" <jwest at classiccmp.org>
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>>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.
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>I happen to have a Atlantic Research Inc, serial datascope.  It contains 
>several boards [std bus z80, rom/ram card, CRT5027 based crt controller Card]
>however no manual.  Someday I'll track down at least a schematic and fix 
>the CRT. The boards say T-bar on them so the instument may even be from
>another company with the ACI label.  It would be fun to get it operational.


   Steve Robertson has a working Atlantic Research datascope. He picked it
up at the Orlando Hamfest a couple of years ago and I THINK he got the
manual for it also. You might check with him.

    Joe

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