29 Jul
1999
29 Jul
'99
3:38 p.m.
On Thu, 29 Jul 1999 21:51:04 Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> writes:
the
Tony,
At 11:16 PM 7/29/99 +0100, you wrote:
>> , but
>> >doesn't the HP150 have an IEEE-488 port (aka GPIB, HPIB) as
>> >standard.
>>
>> Yes, it does but the 150 uses the port to connect to peripherals
>> operating under MS-DOS. It has no commands that will let you send or
>> recieve specific strings over the HP-IB.
>
>That's news to me (and I guess to HP). The HP150 Technical Reference
>Manual has a section entitled 'HPIB Interfacing' which describes how to
use the HPIB
port for non-disk devices.
THAT's news to me! I've never heard of using a 150 as a HP-IB
controller and I have a large STACK of 150 documentation and none of
it even hints that you can what you're talking about. Can you make a
copy of that for me? S@#* and I've got a pile of 150s setting out in rain cause I had no use for them!
Now see, I figured that you knew this, Joe. I remember when I was
working for motorola, they tried to market an automated radio test
system that used an HP-150 as an instrument controller, attached
(via GPIB) to a service monitor, and a *BIG* interface box called a
'barn' that routed the audio, PTT, etc.
It didn't sell. The application software sucked.
<SNIP>
In C? Is there a C that will run on the 150? Most
of the software
has to be tailored specificly for the 150 or else be VERY MS-DOS
compatible with no short cuts. I've heard of BASIC, Assembler and Pascal
that
will run on the 150 but I haven't heard of a C
compiler that would.
I suspect any version of 'C' that is a straight command-line c-compiler
*ought* to work (using dos calls only, of course). Hmmm. Turbo C 1.0
comes to mind. The hard part will be getting the HP-150 implementation
of dos 2.x (or better, 3.x).
Dang it Joe, see what you've done? Now I have to buy an HP-150 to try
this out. S@#*. :^)
Jeff
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