30 Aug
2007
30 Aug
'07
3:31 p.m.
On 30 Aug 2007 at 23:05, Tony Duell wrote:
Checking through some of the stuff I've picked up
in my career as a
hacker (to paraphrase you-know-who), I've come across a set of routines
and a little hardware mod to link a GPIB device to a PC printer port. The
author of this stuff? None other than Chuck Guzis :-)
<Blush> I got my inspiration and motivation for that (as I recall)
from two things--a pile of GPIB cables for the printer
port of a
Victor 9000 at a local surplus place--and an HP 5-pen plotter picked
up at the going-out-of-business sale of a Control Data business
retail store (gives you an idea of how long ago it was). I also had
a fresh copy of SuperCalc for the PC and a 5150 with an MDA. I
coded the original routine as a TSR that hooked one of the BIOS
interrupts, so Supercalc was none the wiser.
Funny how some things come together at the right times...
Cheers,
Chuck