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RCA VP-3501?

I think what you have found a pretty much all that exists: It was intended to be the RCA VIP II which would integrate a number of options from the original RCA VIP into a single all in one keyboard package but RCA abandoned it at the 11th hour and instead it shipped as a ROM swapped terminal emulator, with your variant containing a 300bps modem.
 
I wonder if that power supply would be compatible with an RCA VP4801? I have one of those but no power supply. I'll have to look around again to see if I can find a pinout.
 
Mine on eBay? Nope. Mine's been in the basement for some years just waiting on my figuring out what to do with it. I guess I bought it just to continue to mess with 1802's. I attended a RCA 1802 tech seminar back in the late '70's/early '80's when they were marketing the 1802 CPU's. My company won't buy the RCA COSMAC system and so I built a Quest Super Elf for my own use -- I still have the Super Elf. It has the optional S-100 expansion board with two semi-compatible S-100 slots. I used an 8K static RAM board plus a SSM video board in the slots. Couldn't use DRAM boards. Got to dig that out one of these days and make it function once again. I had a homemade case that never got finished and will need to be replaced. In some ways this was my first S-100 system! I also had a RCA Studio II, but it got tossed during one of our family moves.

I can dig out the pwr supply and get the rating. Most likely just a wall wart of some kind.
 
I pulled mine out to check on the power supply and I need to fess up - I don't have an RCA VP-3501. I labeled the box RCA terminal back then for some reason. What I do have is a Cardinal CP600 that I bought and stuck on a shelf some years ago. It has a wall wart power supply with a 5 pin DIN connector that supplies +5VDC & +/-12VDC output.
 
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