Re: Production Scoreboards

I have received some documentation on the scoreboard.  It receives an ASCII
string in the following protocol:

ASCII
Code

STX  (Start of text also know as Control B)
Address of display as set on the display
Data
ETX (End of text aka Control C)

Example: to set the display that has an address of '04' to '1234'

<STX>041234<ETX>

There is an ethernet card in the board that you assign an IP address and
each number on the board has a 2 position address.

You can telnet from a PC to it again sending the above string as
'control B' "04" "1234"'control C" total of 8 characters.

This sure sounds like it ought to be easy.  Does this make the printer
scenario even more realistic?

I should be receiving a demo board this week.  We have not purchased this
yet so my resources are limited.

I certainly appreciate everyone's help on this project.

Dee

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Villa" <markvilla@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:33 PM
Subject: RE: Production Scoreboards


>
> ~~~address.  It seems as though I should be able to send the
> ~~~number to this board to display.
>
> Very interesting project. I have not done anything like this, but having
> worked with some dumb devices and wanted to contribute.
> It sounds a lot like "printing" to the scoreboard.
> My thought is, when you set up a printer using IP addressing, you never
> really know if it is printing.
> You just send the data.
> Same thing with this scoreboard to print a number.
> I might set up 1 IP configured outq (with the correct port) for each
> scoreboard IP address and try that.
> And use their windows program for verification of sign and testing strings
> (if their support is not there)
> If you can determine their "simple ASCII protocol implementation" you
could
> print to a spool file per IP address, from RPG and get the desired
results.
>
> IBM provides a facility to assist in the compatibility for any device
using
> what IBM calls the workstation customization file.
> Object type *WSCST
>
>
>
> -Mark in Charleston SC
>
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