LCD - Southwestern Bell eMessage Machine (CIDCO MODEL DETI)

[Robotnik]

I bought this machine at a garage sale for 5 bucks. I didn't really get it
to use it for email. I did like the display that was in it, however, it's
fairly large, about 6" wide by 3" tall. I turned the machine on, the
display appears to work, looks like 1-bit color depth, not sure of it's
resoloution.


Does anyone know what display and/or display controller is used here? I
took the display out of the machine, it has a 28 pin connector to the rest
of the machine, but on the display's circuit board, I can't find a model of
it anywhere. If I could find a pinout of it, I would like to make a
paralell or serial controller to run it from a PC for text and simple
graphic output.

Any help in this is appreciated.

Thanks,

Nic

 

[Robotnik]

Well, I did some research myself, and found that the device is made by
CIDCO. It's model is DET1. IT also says that it's called "MailStation."

Apparnetly it was made back in 1999 or so, the CIDCO website didn't list
anything for products that old that I could find.

So if that helps anyone else to understand what device I"m talkin' about,
there ya go.

Thanks again

Nic

"Robotnik" <chickenmonkey@asdf.com> wrote in message
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I bought this machine at a garage sale for 5 bucks. I didn't really get
it
to use it for email. I did like the display that was in it, however, it's
fairly large, about 6" wide by 3" tall. I turned the machine on, the
display appears to work, looks like 1-bit color depth, not sure of it's
resoloution.


Does anyone know what display and/or display controller is used here? I
took the display out of the machine, it has a 28 pin connector to the rest
of the machine, but on the display's circuit board, I can't find a model
of
it anywhere. If I could find a pinout of it, I would like to make a
paralell or serial controller to run it from a PC for text and simple
graphic output.

Any help in this is appreciated.

Thanks,

Nic