[GreenKeys] Telebyte Model 65A - RS-232 to Current Loop

[Bryan Brodie]

Tony,

The Telebyte Model 65A is strictly a hardware device - no software
included - so as long as your gear can communicate with the serial
ports you should have no issues.

Full documentation available here for download:
http://www.telebyteusa.com/catalog/products/65a.htm

I was just given an IBM blade server that was decommissioned - 2 GHz
Xeon w/2GB RAM (that's considered obsolete? - hmmmm). I'm going to
mount it inside the stand of my ASR35 along with the Telebyte. It fits
inside with room to spare!

I'm running two obsolete operating systems on the server (TSO/MVS -
IBM System/370 emulation under Hercules, & HP2000 Time Shared BASIC  -
HP21MX emulation under SIMH) which should give me some cool TTY demo
apps to play with.

I've got all the old-school text games like slots, blackjack and star
trek. I'm starting with Win7 Ultimate, but hope to transition to Linux
very soon. (I could never get the MacOS to slow down the serial port
speed below 9600 BAUD).

I know a lot of the former military folks say "why pay so much for
something you can build for $40?" - but I don't know how to build an
RS232 to current loop converter, since I am much more software than
hardware. So, I spent the money on my hobby (with permission from my
wife  ;-)

Bryan Brodie

>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Duncan Brown <duncanancy at earthlink.net>
> To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> Cc:
> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:12:32 -0400
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Telebyte Model 65A - RS-232 to Current Loop
> Tony,
>
> Don't know anything about Linux - I just do Windows.
>
> MMTTY is a "glass" TTY program that decodes Baudot and normally just outputs to the screen, but can also be set up to output to a serial port.
>
> Duncan
> K2OEQ
>
> On 17-Mar-12 12:43, tony j. podrasky wrote:
>>
>> Hey Duncan;
>>
>> Does that run under Linux?
>>
>> UE,
>> W6ESE - tony
>> NNNN
>> ZCZC