pickle et al, Re a certain thread in the compact macs list, but to keep on topic I'm posting here to vintage.
what exactly does a GPIB General Purpose Interface Board, DO?. National Instruments was (and is) the main manufacturer of those which I have <<National Instruments , IEEE-488. It is an instrument bus originally developed by HP to connect various pieces of test equipment together>> It's a 12" nubus for IIFX size computer (or aircraft carrier) and am wondering what it does.it do? Actually, what can I do with it? I downloaded drivers from National instruments but I'm an artist not a engineer. I'm wondering does it have any use fror me , my garden, our three kids? It has an internal adapter like 50 pin scsi but on th outside it has some weird 34 (?) I think pin centronics type adapter. What can I do with it? willl it pay my mortgage or find me a job? Should I offer it up on the Swap list? if so how much? I got three IIFX's a while back and this was in one. They had the drives stripped but they seem to have come from a local newspaper All had 20 megs ram and only two had video cards. The super mac and a radius (very nice, it does 1152X786 or something in....32 bit!! As well as 16 ,8, 4, and 2) I can't change the size resolution from that though. Any thoughts? Is it sensing something from the monitor apple 17 inch. I also have a supermac thunder/8 video card. Anybody know what those 4 64 pin simm slots are for? the IIfx memory fit in there but does it need something else to access this memory? Do those simm slots actually do anything? The card works otherwise One other thing. I have a crappy CD burner which can br seen by toast 3.5.6 but doesn't make anything but very slow coasters. Is there any way to clean it in case that is a possible problem? It is a crappy 2 x/4x which reads but the writing is a little screwy. It is a JVC2010 which is reportedly a real buggy model but I'd like to fix it if possible. enough questions for you? Pete -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
