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Offline JuliusJTopic starter

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First post and I am asking for help. Isn't that the same for most of us?

I am trying to locate a software package for the Tektronix sampling scopes. It is the 80SICON  - Iconnect.exe

Anyone out there have a copy of this running. It requires a dongle, which I already have.

Thanks kindly.
 

Offline d37duck

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Re: Tektronix Iconnect Software 80SICON wanted TDS8300 TDS8300 DSA8300
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2023, 05:19:53 pm »
Hi

Hi, I’ll swap you an IConnect CD copy, described below, for a code of your IConnect dongle.

I have a CD image of the disk pictured in the attachment, IConnect 80SSPAR Tek# 063-3897-04. The disk is supposed to work on all Tek TDS8000 family scopes including DSA8300.  I have a DSA8200 and installed it.  I can adjust differential signal alignment with the installation, but I need the dongle for TDR Line analyzes.

I don't have the Sentinel Superpro dongle for IConnect. My knowledge of the dongle is: and image can be read from it and the written into another Superpro dongle.  There is a company called SakeKey International ( https://www.safe-key.com/software.html ), and others like them, that provide dongle copying service.  I think Sentinel's parent company tries to prevent this. They required a dongle driver and dongle protector to be installed with the IConnect installation.  I assume this means the image read is altered.  I also assume SakeKey figured out a way around if.  There is an article about hacking the driver to eliminate the dongle, see Sentinel_Dongle attachment.

My opinion is all Sentinel parallel port dongles are made from 93C46 EEPROMs (or there die) with some digital logic (programmed PLD) to interface with the parallel port.  I have software that reads and writes parallel port Sentinel dongles with source code.  It uses x86 I/O read and write instructions to read and write the three registers in PC’s parallel port hardware. I believe an exact image of the dongle's EEPROM contents can be read with this software with no drivers or protectors install and written back to a second one. With luck it will work.
 

Offline JuliusJTopic starter

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Re: Tektronix Iconnect Software 80SICON wanted TDS8300 TDS8300 DSA8300
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2023, 05:14:29 am »
Sorry for the late response.

Thanks for your offer, however I was able to locate the software.

 


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