hobbit@topaz.rutgers.edu (*Hobbit*) (05/10/89)
I recently returned from Trenton Computerfest with lots of nifty junk, including two pieces of communications equipment which I and DEC have completely failed to identify. It's a plain white flat modem-style box, apx. 9x6x1.5, sloped front panel with a little door that opens into two thumbwheel switches and a reset button. On the rear are two DB-25 connectors, male and female marked "COMM" and <little-tv-screen-icon> respectively; two modular jacks, one 4-pin with a handset icon and one 8-pin with a "line" icon [a bar drawn above it!!]; a Molex marked "~24V" for power. No other outside markings on the box. There's a bi-color LED at the right front that indicates status somehow. The thumbwheel switches go from 0 to 9. On the board etch I found "|d|i|g|i|t|a|l", "VT PHONE CONTROLLER", and "50-16478-01" which must be a DEC part number. There are two proms marked "MAIN" and "MNTR". The box has a speaker mounted up under the top. Plugging 24VAC into the two outer pins of the molex causes it to power up, the LED to flash red and green for a while and then go solid green or blinking green, different depending upon where you'd set the thumbwheels. I couldn't get a plugged-in terminal to do anything. What is it??!?! Colorado DEC field service and such has completely failed to find it. _H*
hpoppe@bierstadt.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe) (05/11/89)
In article <May.10.11.52.35.1989.1419@topaz.rutgers.edu> hobbit@topaz.rutgers.edu (*Hobbit*) writes: >I recently returned from Trenton Computerfest with lots of nifty junk, >including two pieces of communications equipment which I and DEC have >completely failed to identify. > >It's a plain white flat modem-style box, apx. 9x6x1.5, sloped front panel >with a little door that opens into two thumbwheel switches and a reset button. [Description deleted] >What is it??!?! Colorado DEC field service and such has completely failed >to find it. Perhaps this is a custom "product" produced by DEC's Computer Special Systems division. (Are they still around?) I have no idea what this beastie is. Herb Poppe NCAR INTERNET: hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (303) 497-1296 P.O. Box 3000 CSNET: hpoppe@ncar.CSNET Boulder, CO 80307 UUCP: hpoppe@ncar.UUCP