At 12:26 PM -0400 10/2/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In a message dated 10/2/02 9:21:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
><<
>National Instruments Corp
>Copyright 1992
>LAB-LC
>Assy 181540-01 Rev. C
>
>I Googled but didn't find anything. I think the Performa was used in some
>sort of scientific lab by its previous owner, so I'm guessing it's some sort
>of lab equipment thing ...
>>>
>
>National Instruments is the premier manufacturer of IEEE-488 cards, and other
>cards for data acquisition and control.
>
>National Instruments makes several IEEE-488 (AKA, GPIB, HP-IB) cards which
>have been used, and are supported by Nikon film scanners, the LS-3500, for
>example.


IEEE-488 is an instrument control bus and functions similar to SCSI 
(but is in no way interchangeable).   IEEE-488 has a connector that 
looks like a parallel printer connector or SCSI  connector (not the 
DB-25) but smaller.   If it doesn't have such a connector then it is 
likely an Analog and/or Digital I/O card.

>
>Later Nikon film scanners were SCSI-2 based, the LS-3510, for example.
>
>I've encountered humongous National Instruments cards in 840s, so some of
>them must have been used in the music or film industry.


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