Re: Seeking software for SGI/Sun dial box (was Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?)

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Ethan Dicks http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctalk>> wrote: > SN-921 > > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Sgi_dialbox_sn-921_front.jpg > > DANAHER CONTROLS Dials DLS80-1022 > >

Re: Seeking software for SGI/Sun dial box (was Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?)

On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 8:13 PM, Glen Slick wrote: > On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 4:56 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: >> >> What I _think_ I'm seeing is the Python code sends a mode switch >> command to get the dial box to auto-send dial events, so I wonder if >>

Re: Seeking software for SGI/Sun dial box (was Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?)

On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 4:56 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > > What I _think_ I'm seeing is the Python code sends a mode switch > command to get the dial box to auto-send dial events, so I wonder if > there are any firmware differences with units destined for HP and > units

Re: Seeking software for SGI/Sun dial box (was Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?)

On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 5:48 PM, Glen Slick wrote: > On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 2:01 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk > wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: >>> SN-921 >>> >>>

Re: Seeking software for SGI/Sun dial box (was Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?)

On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 2:01 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: >> SN-921 >> >> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Sgi_dialbox_sn-921_front.jpg >> >> DANAHER CONTROLS Dials

Seeking software for SGI/Sun dial box (was Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?)

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > SN-921 > > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Sgi_dialbox_sn-921_front.jpg > > DANAHER CONTROLS Dials DLS80-1022 > >

SGI SN-921 dial box (978-0804) (was Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?)

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 6:09 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: >> SN-921 (2.1mm barrel jack for +5V) >> >> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Sgi_dialbox_sn-921_front.jpg > > http://yehar.com/blog/?p=3471 > > The (Seiko?) SN-921 can apparently be powered via DE9 or

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

On 2018-03-28 11:23 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 6:09 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: Now I'm really looking forward to unboxing these next month! My dialboxes showed up today. The Seiko unit was advertised as having a PS/2 adapter. They were

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 6:09 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > Now I'm really looking forward to unboxing these next month! My dialboxes showed up today. The Seiko unit was advertised as having a PS/2 adapter. They were mistaken. It's a DE9-MiniDIN8 adapter, presumably for newer

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > I went noodling around eBay and found a couple of types > > SN-921 (2.1mm barrel jack for +5V) > > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Sgi_dialbox_sn-921_front.jpg > > DANAHER CONTROLS Dials DLS80-1022

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 1:31 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > and if anyone cares, I just listed three SGI IRIS dial boxes on ebay. > they are just rotary encoders, the smarts were in the button box, which had a > 68008 in it. I went noodling around eBay and found a

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

and if anyone cares, I just listed three SGI IRIS dial boxes on ebay. they are just rotary encoders, the smarts were in the button box, which had a 68008 in it. On 3/25/18 10:28 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 3/25/18 8:49 AM, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote: > >>

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

On 3/25/18 8:49 AM, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote: > https://github.com/hanshuebner/sgi-dialbox-usb/blob/master/dialbox.py a friend of mine made a MIDI controller out of a E dial box, which also has alphanumeric LEDs over each dial. the box looks like the one on the right here:

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Jason T via cctalk wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 10:49 AM, Chris Elmquist via cctalk > wrote: >> Maybe there's some relationship to the SGI dial boxes?? I have an SGI >> one but don't know anything about the IBM

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 10:49 AM, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote: > Maybe there's some relationship to the SGI dial boxes?? I have an SGI > one but don't know anything about the IBM ones. They were built by > Danaher and Seiko and both SGI and Sun offered those models...

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

On 03/25/2018 09:49 AM, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote: Maybe there's some relationship to the SGI dial boxes?? I have an SGI one but don't know anything about the IBM ones. They were built by Danaher and Seiko and both SGI and Sun offered those models...

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

On Sunday (03/25/2018 at 07:11AM -0700), Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote: > > > > On Mar 24, 2018, at 22:29, Michael Brutman via cctalk > > wrote: > > > > Picture here: https://i.imgur.com/ClCw070.jpg > > > > Neat! I haven't seen one

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

> On Mar 24, 2018, at 22:29, Michael Brutman via cctalk > wrote: > > Picture here: https://i.imgur.com/ClCw070.jpg > Neat! I haven't seen one of those since 1987, when I briefly played with a workstation that had one of those in an

IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

Picture here: https://i.imgur.com/ClCw070.jpg Does anybody know how to talk to this thing? I've got one of these devices but I don't have a reference for the protocol. It's a serial device so it's probably not terribly complicated, but trying to figure it out by throwing random bytes at it