Steve,
I would like to suggest to take the trial version of TransAera HTBasic.
There is a help-file included, which is describing all comands needed
for your purposes.
Andreas
Steve Robertson wrote:
  Hey guys,
 I am working on a project to breath life back into some old hardware.
 I order to do so, I need some documentation / assistance in writing
 low-level routines to talk to various HPIB devices. Specifically: I
 would like to talk to a HP 7978 tape drive, a CS80 compatible tape
 drive, or a common HPIB disk drive.
 I don't need help with HPIB protocol, I need to know the sequence of
 commands (sent across the bus) to move data into and out of those
 devices. I would expect to find this information in the programming
 manuals for those devices but so far, have been unable to locate the
 docs.
 If anyone can provide documentation for any of those devices or has
 experience programming them, I'd appreciate the assistance.
 Thanks,
 SteveRob
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