Re: [lcd4linux] Futaba VFD with phone jack connector

[Thomas S. <th...@gm...>]

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Hi,

Andrew Chapman schrieb:

| IBM uses a standard serial controller to drive the device from the Pc end
| (the SureOne is a Pc with a Via C3 chip and Windows OS), so I would expect
| the cable to be similar to a standard RS-232 one.  The following seems to be
| the common layout for an 8 pin serial cable, but this doesn't account for
| power.  The SureOne technical documentation gives pinouts for all the other
| connectors, including both unpowered and powered serial connectors but omits
| the VFD display connector.

;-)

The connecter that is described here is used on nearly all IBM POS systems for
the special POS hardware (cash drawer, LCDs, MSRs etc ...). It is a serial
RS485 port with a special kind of connector. No - I currently do not have a
pin-out for this device. The only thing that I know now is that the power is
also coming over this "RJ-like" cable and that therefore this:

| 1)   DSR   	2)   DCD  3)   DTR  4)   SG  5)   RD  6)   TD  7)   CTS 	8)
| RTS

maybe wrong.

|
| thanks,
| Andrew

CU,
Thomas.
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