[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[John E. Malmberg]

On 8/22/2012 8:24 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2012-08-22 13:57, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> Had I been forced to use an ASR-33 Teletype to talk to a VMS system,
>>> I would hate it.
>>
>> Didn't some people actually do that?  I have a lot of modules from
>> DEC that were in common use after the arrival of the VAX that still
>> supported tty loop instead of or in addition to RS-232.
>
> VT200-series terminals also were available with 20mA current loop...
>
> If anyone ever hooked up an ASR33 to a VAX, it was most likely just
> because they wanted to be perverse... :-)

I just wanted to see if the ASR33 still worked.  Unfortunately it did 
not, it was out of alignment, so I gave it away to an old computer 
collector.  Probably has been sitting in his barn since then.

RS232 to current loop adapters are very easy to build.  The last time I 
actually used the ASR-33 it was as a printer to a TRS-80 Color Computer.

Regards,
-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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