Commodore computers in the longago dimdark past serialized the GPIB. They started out with the GPIB as the disk drive and printer interface from the get-go. I used a Commodore as a cheap controller when Hp GPIB controllers cost a small fortune. Don
David > What aspects of USB would HP have used? Just the complexity of a USB > OHCI/UHCI would have been economically prohibitive compared to an > asynchronous serial UART. An OHCI/UHCI is more like an ethernet > controller and those took up the space of entire expansion boards > initially. > > What they did come up with was HP-IB although I would have preferred > it to be serial and galvanically isolated. > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:28:46 -0400, paul swed <paulsw...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>I have never figured out why HP did not develop USB in 1969? Not very >> far >>sighted. ;-) >>Regards >>Paul >>WB8TSL > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- "Neither the voice of authority nor the weight of reason and argument are as significant as experiment, for thence comes quiet to the mind." De Erroribus Medicorum, R. Bacon, 13th century. "If you don't know what it is, don't poke it." Ghost in the Shell Dr. Don Latham AJ7LL Six Mile Systems LLP 17850 Six Mile Road POB 134 Huson, MT, 59846 VOX 406-626-4304 www.lightningforensics.com www.sixmilesystems.com _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
