9 Feb
2006
9 Feb
'06
10:53 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
But this is classiccmp....
It's still useful to many people. I have no idea whether I
could hang a PET 4040 drive off this thing, but it
would be useful if I could.
I have many machines, even pocket-sized machines,
which can act as
HPIB controllers. I haev nothing that can take a USB port
Again, _most_ people might be a bit different!
(and you must admit if you could design something to
work the other
way, even for a limited subest of USB peripherals, there would be a
certain hack value in having a USB-capable HP9830...)
Absolutely. I've not looked at this project in detail
but it does seem to be "open" so it may be easy to either
"turn it around" or, better yet, make it "work both ways".
Antonio
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Antonio carlini
arcarlini at iee.org