8 Nov
2005
8 Nov
'05
6:52 p.m.
At 09:00 PM 11/8/05 +0000, you wrote:
Well, the software is going to be a big problem. Most calculators are not
going to recognise a device on the wrong side of an 82169 converter as a
mass storage device. And said device is not going to talk the Modified
Filbert Protocol that the calculator is expecting anyway.
Bummer! I'd been thinking for years about trying that. Oh well it's a
good thing that I have plenty of 9114 and HP-IL cassette drives. Now if I
could just find a GOOD source of those darned tapes!
Joe
(Oh and don't tell me to use CD-Rs or DVDs, or
whatever. I've yet to find
such devives with an HPIL interface (for example)).
Hmmm. I have a couple of HP-IB MO drives and a HP-IL to HP-IB converter.
I wonder???
-tony