04b3:4524 — 40 Character Vacuum Fluorescent Display
IBM Corp.
- Vendor ID
- 04b3
- Product ID
- 4524
- Combined
- 04b3:4524
- Decimal
- 1203:17700
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a 40 Character Vacuum Fluorescent Display manufactured by IBM Corp.. The vendor ID 04b3 is registered to IBM Corp. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 4524 is the product ID that IBM Corp. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 04b3:4524 IBM Corp. 40 Character Vacuum Fluorescent Display.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04b3:4524 IBM Corp. 40 Character Vacuum Fluorescent Display
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 04b3:4524, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 04b3:4524. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=04b3, idProduct=4524.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_04B3&PID_4524 USB\VID_04B3&PID_4524&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_04B3&PID_4524"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
40 Character Vacuum Fluorescent Display:
Product ID: 0x4524
Vendor ID: 0x04b3 (IBM Corp.)Driver help
Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.
Raw usb.ids entry
The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:
04b3 IBM Corp. 4524 40 Character Vacuum Fluorescent Display