15 Apr
2003
15 Apr
'03
1:28 p.m.
Joe wrote:
Peter,
...snip...snip...snip...
FYI at one time HP made a kit that had a 8 bit ISA
HP-IB card along with software and docs to let you use one of the HP drives on a PC. I
used to have one but don't remember the exact name or model. I don't know if it
was capable of reading HP data from a drive or not but it's a possibility.
HP 88500A is the one I have. Allows you to use both HPIB tape drives and
disk drives
on your PC.... The package included an interface card HP88500A,
one-meter HPIB cable
(8120-4554), a manual set: 88500-90011, 88500-90005, and 88500-90010, and a
software disk (5.25") 88500-10100... This package formatted the drives
for use with DOS,
so that the partitions on the drives were DOS partitions. I didn't see
anything in the manual
about accessing LIF (or any other non-DOS file system) with this product...
Bill McDermith