[comp.terminals] Hooking a Teleray terminal to a modem

feinberg@acsu.buffalo.edu (john a feinberg) (09/02/90)

I have recently acquired an ancient (ok, circa 1979) Teleray terminal; a 1060
I think.  I want to hook it up to my modem.  It seems to have a standard serial
jack in the back.  Can I just get a serial cable and plug the modem into the
terminal, or do I have to tie certain pins together?  The modem is a standard
Hayes compatible external model  (no, it's an internal one  :) )

John Feinberg
SUNY Buffalo

rar@athena.mit.edu (Roger A Roach) (09/02/90)

I am pretty sure that a normal cable will not work.  We had a bunch of Teleray
1061's and they all required a special cable that came with the terminal.  It
had a small tag on the side that needed to be closest to the terminal.  Here
are the pin mappings from the manual:

1 - Protective Ground
2 - Transmitted Data
3 - Received data
4 - Request to send
5 - Clear to Send (MUST BE ASSERTED FOR TRANSMIT)
7 - Signal Ground
8 - Carrier Detect (MUST BE ASSERTED FOR RECEIVE)
20 - Data Terminal Ready

Good Luck.