29 Jun
2007
29 Jun
'07
11:03 a.m.
Jason McBrien wrote:
Why on earth go via HP-HIL? HPIL and HP-HIL are totally different
interfaces, I've never seen an HPIL to HP-HIL interface,
HP-HIL interface chips are hard to find (much harder than HPIL chips),
and so on.
If I wanted to do something like this, I'd link a 1LB3 (HPIL interface
chip) to a microconroller with an on-chip USB interface.
-tony
The HP 100 series were some of the first laptop computers that could run
DOS. It had DOS, Basic, Lotus and a few other productivity apps in ROM, and
used the somewhat odd HP-IL bus to interface with peripherals, among them a
battery powered disk drive.
Hmmm...
HPIL -> HPHIL -> + -> USB?
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PCI
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