15 May 2003, 05:30, Leonard Erickson (1:105/50), wrote to All:

Hi Leonard.

 LE> Digging thru my junk box, I stumbled upon an old Inmac gizmo:

 LE> SP-64
 LE> Serial-To-Parallel Converter
 LE> and 64K Buffer
 LE> Product No.
 LE> 8149-1

 LE> It's got a coax power jack, and no indication of what voltage 
 LE> polarity it wants. There's also a 8 position DIP switch inside 
 LE> (probably for setting serial parameters).

 LE> Before just tossing it, I figured I'd ask if anybody knew 
 LE> anything about it. If I could get the info, I could actually use it 
 LE> with some other equally ancient gear (like actual *terminals*).

No help whatever on that one, but the post reminded me I built one years
ago, and made it switchable, as I needed a parallel to serial to run an old
Centronics serial printer (yes, the people that 'invented' the parallel
port!)  People thought I was nuts back then, as I had a computer with only
16K and had a 64K buffer hanging from it.  Wonder where it is now or what
ever happened to it?  What would I do with it if I knew where it was?  
:-))


     Good luck...  M.

--- Msged/386 TE 06 (pre)