1640B is a very different thing - I should've added that it's basically a glorified RS232 breakout box, and nothing like a 'logic analyzer'.
It definitely won't connect to peripherals itself - there's a very obvious lack of buttons and menus to configure something like that. I suspect that the GPIB functionality will be about managing what is in the programmable buffers that it can send out in response to some input on the serial link it is monitoring. But how :-) > On 7 Nov 2024, at 22:32, Holm Tiffe via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Sytse van Slooten via cctalk wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have a HP 1640B that I'm trying to get to work. However I can't find any >> information about it, and while the machine itself it straightforward enough >> (and I remember enough from when I was using it in my first dayjob) I can >> not find anything about how to use the GPIB interface that it has. >> >> The reason I'm interested is, we've finally managed to add GPIB support to >> the PDP2011-MINC fpga implementation, and I'd like to test against a >> different target than the relatively modern Philips/Fluke counter I'm now >> using. And the 1640B is the only other GPIB instrument I have... >> >> The HP doesn't seem to know the ID? command (that causes an error message on >> the screen). It does respond to a newline (the standard >> is-this-listener-present test that the MINC code implements), so at least >> something is working. >> >> Does anyone here have any docs on the HP 1640B? It'd be very helpful at >> least to know which GPIB commands are implemented. >> >> thanks in advance! >> >> Sytse > > I have an HP1631D Logic Analyzer and it has an HPIB (GPIB) Port too, but > as far as I know it is only used to connect a special HP Floppy Disc Drive > with HPIB bus, the HP9122 for example, others exist, even a hard drive. > It is used to load and store measurements and loading disassemblers. > Maybe it can handle a printer too. > I've got such an HP9122 later and tested it with the Analyzer...works. > (BTW: does someone have Z80 an 6809 Disassemblers for the 1631D?) > > Regards, > Holm > -- > Technik Service u. Handel Tiffe, www.tsht.de, Holm Tiffe, > Goethestrasse 15, 09569 Oederan, USt-Id: DE253710583 > i...@tsht.de Tel +49 37292 709778 Mobil: 0172 8790 741 >
