>Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:44:25 -0800
>To: Jonathan Cheyer <jonathan@cheyer.biz>
>From: Philip Gust <gust@NouveauSystems.com>
>Subject: Re: [nls-technical] chord keyset
>Cc: NLS Restoration Technical Discussion
><nls-technical@chm.cim3.net>, Jake Feinler <feinler@earthlink.net>,
>Raylene Pak <raylene_pak@sbcglobal.net>
>
>Jonathan,
>
>You might consider contacting Doug and see how he's connected his
>keyset. I seem to recall once his mentioning connecting it to the
>serial port, but he'd be able to confirm that.
>
>It would be interesting to see if we can come up with a set of plans
>for constructing the keyset. I wonder how hard it would be to
>reverse-engineer the one you have?
>
>At 12:47 PM 11/24/2005, Jonathan Cheyer wrote:
>>Hi Dave,
>>
>>Well, Jake has given me a chord keyset to play with, and I'm trying to
>>figure out how to interface with it.
>>
>>My first problem is that I can't tell whether it should be plugged into
>>a serial port or a parallel port on a PC.
>>
>>The keyset has a Cannon DA-15S (Cinch) female connector at its end (15
>>pin, D shape, 8 on top, 7 on bottom, part number "DA51211-1 USA").
>>
>>She also gave me a cable which has on one end a DA-15P male connector
>>which plugs into the keyset's female connector. The cable itself is a
>>rainbow-colored ribbon made up of six separately wrapped wires (wrapped
>>light-brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue).
>>
>>The other end of the cable is a 25 pin male connector (D shape, 13 on
>>top, 12 on bottom) with nothing listed except "AMPHENOL-117" on it.
>>Since it is a 25 pin connector, that means it could either be a parallel
>>port connector, or a DB25 serial port connector.
>>
>>It could plug directly into a PC parallel port (which is female), or I
>>could use a DB25-female to DB9-female converter cable to plug in to a PC
>>serial port (which is male).
>>
>>I spent some time looking through your AugTerm assembler code to see if
>>I could understand how it reads from the keyset. Alas, I could not
>>determine as yet whether it reads from a parallel or serial port, for
>>the keyset.
>>
>>I tried to search the web to find any technical information on the
>>keyset but also came up empty. It would be great to have the pinout for
>>the keyset, if anyone has that available.
>>
>>Do you remember off-hand where the keyset plugs into a machine?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>Jonathan
>>
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>
>Philip Gust
>Nouveau Systems, Inc.
>
>phone: +1 650 961-7992
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>
>
>mailto: gust@NouveauSystems.com (01)
Philip Gust
Nouveau Systems, Inc. (02)
phone: +1 650 961-7992
fax: +1 520 843-7217 (03)
mailto: gust@NouveauSystems.com (04)
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