[rescue] LED Signboard

[Phil Stracchino]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:59:11AM -0500, Steve Hatle wrote:
> I picked up an LED signboard yesterday at a surplus place, cheap. It appears
> to come from a company called Symon (www.symon.com), who makes
> alerting/messaging software to drive displays, so you can have a sign
> showing machine/network status, number of calls in queue for a call center,
> etc. 
[...]
> Anyone have any experience with these? I suppose I can hook up a terminal/PC
> and see what I can see out of the serial port, but if anyone knows how to
> talk to one of these, it might be fun to rig up in the basement and drive
> different messages/sayings through software.


Ooh!  BOFH Excuse of the Hour!  :)


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