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Driving an IBM POS 2X20 Pole Display

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Robert Wells

I have a few IBM POS customer pole displays. They are 2x20 and are
fluorescent and
the part number is 61P5766. They have a four pin jack that is labeled 4
which I assume means it plugs into port 4 on the pos computer.I believe this
display is used on the IBM 4694 POS system. I don't know if it uses RS-232
or RS-485. I have a few LTC485 tranceivers if it does use a RS-485
interface.
I would like to be able to drive these displays from a PIC microcontroller
or even
a serial port on a PC but I have no idea what is required to communicate
with it. I would greatly
appreciate anyone having information on the interface, protocol and
initialization.

Thank You,
Bob
 
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