Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: nfs@princeton.edu (Norbert Schlenker) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Help needed with sperry univac terminal UNITERM 200 Message-ID: <10310@nigel.udel.EDU> Date: 6 Feb 90 18:53:15 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 22 In article you write: >Recently, I found an old Sperry Univac Terminal named UNITERM 200 >in a Computer junk store for $25 and took it home. >Does anybody know this Terminal type? Not exactly. >The design seems to be from the stone age, and it has many buttons >with cryptic names on them on its keyboard. Typical Sperry. >All I know is that it seems to work in local mode right now, and that it has >a 25 pin male sub-d connector, which I suppose to be a standard RS-232 >port. However, there's also another multi-pin nonstandard connector, >... This is where you've gone wrong. Sperry terminals use RS-232, but the pin configuration is non-standard. You need a manual, a talk with Sperry, or a breakout box. Norbert