Re: Versabraille

Re: Versabraille

[Martin Courcelles]

Hello there:
The only info I could find about this old beast is this following little blurb.  It tells you how to null modem cable, at least that's what I can figure out of it.  
The tape-based VersaBraille is a paperless brailling device with a serial interface. To interface with the tape-based VersaBraille, you need the special
I/O cable that comes with the VersaBraille. Examine it. One side is hammer shaped, and it goes into the VersaBraille. The other side is either a female
or a male 25-pin connection. Use a straight through female-to-female (or female-to-male) cable with a null modem adapter to connect the VersaBraille to
one of your serial ports. TeleSensory recommends a null modem adapter that has wires 1 and 7 straight through, swaps wires 2 and 3, swaps wires 4 and 5,
and ties 6 and 8 together on each end and connects them to 20 on the other end.

Load the terminal overlay and set the parameters as follows: b 9600; d 8; p n; s 1; t c; ll 80; pl 0; ci sp (or y if you want to capture carriage returns);
cr 0; et eot; dx f; hs dtr; ai n; co cr; ak n; dci n; cts y; cd n

Save these parameters with a chord-o. Open a new chapter and get into remote mode with a chord-r r. Make sure that the cursor is up. Then you are ready
to send material to the VersaBraille.
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> From: "David Sachs" <davidmsachs@hotmail.com>
> Date: 2003/03/17 Mon PM 12:30:16 EST
> To: blinux-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Versabraille
> 
> i have an old tape-based versabraille p2c that i'm trying to get running. 
> unfortunately, i don't have the power supply or the cable that connects it 
> to the serial port. i was wondering if anyone had either of these two cables 
> lying around. i'm an engineering student, so i can build them if i can take 
> a look at them, or even if i could just get the specs on them (for the power 
> supply, i need the voltage, and for the serial port i need to know which 
> pins get connected to what).
> please let me know if anyone has either of these two cables, or information 
> on them. i tried telesensory and freedom scientific, they didn't know 
> anything.
> thanks again,
> david
> p.s.- if you're in the new york city area, and you'd let me look at these 
> cables, it be very grateful! i promise i won't take them apart!
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Versabraille

[David Sachs]

i have an old tape-based versabraille p2c that i'm trying to get running. 
unfortunately, i don't have the power supply or the cable that connects it 
to the serial port. i was wondering if anyone had either of these two cables 
lying around. i'm an engineering student, so i can build them if i can take 
a look at them, or even if i could just get the specs on them (for the power 
supply, i need the voltage, and for the serial port i need to know which 
pins get connected to what).
please let me know if anyone has either of these two cables, or information 
on them. i tried telesensory and freedom scientific, they didn't know 
anything.
thanks again,
david
p.s.- if you're in the new york city area, and you'd let me look at these 
cables, it be very grateful! i promise i won't take them apart!







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