19 Aug
1997
19 Aug
'97
11:20 p.m.
Oooh fun... so there's little chance of
interfacing it to the 11/44?
Well, there are GPIB (same thing as HPIB as near as darn-it) cards for the
PDP11 Unibus (and Qbus for that matter) both from DEC (the IB-11 and
IBV-11) and 3rd parties. But AFAIK there is no support for HP tape drives
hung off such a card - certainly not for booting or installing an OS.
As for the computer, it apparently uses the drive. I
have no cord, and no
idea where to plug it in. Where's the console terminal? Mine has no
switches, darn.
Well, it probably connects via a custom HP cable (read: expensive) to one
of the cards in the cardcage. That's what happens on a friends HP9000/735.
Ditto for the console terminal.
What cards do you have in there, and what markings do they have? Anything
recognizable?
-tony