On Friday 09 November 2001 17:36, you wrote: > Sounds like a great idea as I love GPIB/HPIB (memories) sigh !! > :-) There is so much gear out there that uses this and for > embedded linux it could open many possibilites (anybody remeber > the commodore machines or the HP/80)
Heh! My first computer after my old Comodore Amiga gave up the ghost was an HP 9000s375 that was excessed from the University I attended. It had a 50 MHz MC68030 with at 68888 MPU. THe only interface it had when I first got it was HP-IB, so I wrangled up a 7935 Hard Drive (404 MB, used 14" removable media modules, I think they had five platters... The drive sucked 1500W by itself. The rest of the computer burned another 500W. If it weren't for the noice I could have heated my house with it! But it sounded like a jet engine, so I ran 40' of HP-IB cable and stuck the dive out in the garage!) and was off to the ...er... races. Seriously, I have a a few old HP-IB peripherals hanginf around still, and would be jazed if I could put them to use again... The only IEEE-488 card I have in my inventory is ISA, so they'll have to be strung off of a legacy machine, and accessed over the network, but hey... at least they could get some use... ~Chuck
