24 Aug
2001
24 Aug
'01
3:36 a.m.
At 03:35 AM 8/24/01 -0600, Richard Erlacher wrote:
With respect to the Commodore choice to put HPIB on
their computers, as opposed
to a parallel port, there was a fellow here in Denver who cooked up a circuit
that allowed one to attach a then-common EPSON printer to the HPIB, thereby
making the computer into a useful tool. He became rich beyond his wildest
dreams, and started a company called "Progressive Peripherals" which may in
fact
still be in operation.
Progressive Peripherals and Software (PP&S) were most active
in the Amiga market for some time, although I don't know what
happened to them in the end. They made frame grabbers, genlocks,
hard disk interfaces and processor upgrades, and publishing a
number of software packages. I think they also had products
for Mac, Atari ST and even PC.
- John
P.S. Speaking of reformers, Carrie Nation's hatchet would do a
good job chopping off extraneous quoted text at the bottom of
messages. Please do.