--- Jeff Hellige <jhellige(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
There's an Amiga 3000 on eBay that purports to
have a
Zorro-II GPIB interface. This is the first time I've heard of one of
these.
I haven't seen _this_ one, but ISTR that ADSG had a stackable I/O
board with GPIB as one of the option modules.
Does anyone have one?
Having never _heard_ of it (and being a big GPIB fan from PET days and
a big Amiga fan from more recent days), I would be surprised if they
sold more than a handful. If you have an old AC Guide, you might look
them up to see if they were ever reviewed in the product guide.
What was it used for?
Talking to lab instruments - volt meters, frequency counters, pH meters,
etc.
If they had a decent driver or an API for C (or possibly BASIC ;-),
one could write code to talk to whatever you wanted, HP and Commodore
equipment, most commonly. I always wanted to be able to hook a 4040
drive or the like up to a modern computer (yes, I know there are ways
to do that now); this would have helped accomplish that 5-10 years ago.
-ethan
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