8 Aug
2001
8 Aug
'01
7:53 a.m.
At 04:00 PM 8/7/01 -0400, you wrote:
joe wrote:
FWIW I open and check EVERY HP PC-type computer that I find and
look for those cards. Also I recently found a complete SW package for the
viper card on E-bay. It was brand new and still sealed in plastic. I was
the only bidder on it. That's the kind of thing that E-bay is good for!
Joe
Joe
I have an ISA card made by HP that is called
a "BASIC langauage
processor card" or more commonly referred to as a "Viper" card. The
card
contains RAM, BASIC in ROM (optional), a 68000 CPU and a GPIB port. When
you run the driver program on the PC, the card takes over the system and it
behaves exactly like a HP 9836! Including the ability to operate HP-IB
devices and use HP-IB disk drives, printers, plotters, etc. Most of the
viper cards used a disk based language but you could get BASIC and Pascal
in ROM form. I've only seen a few of these cards and they all ran BASIC but
I'm told that you could get HPL, BASIC and Pascal. I've also been told
that there was a "hyper-viper" card that used a 68010 or 68020 but I've
never talked to anyone that's seen one.
Real cool! I'll keep my eyes open for that one... Eric
Joe
At 10:54 AM 8/7/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I have a 16 bit ISA card that is a Motorola 68020 with 68881 (or is it the
>68882?). Anyway the card
>is a complete single board computer that plugs into your AT system. It
is
made
>by a company called
>DSI and came with C and FORTRAN, I believe.
>
>I actually collect ISA cards that have interesting processors on them
(i.e.
> >80186, 68000, 68020, 386
> >486, etc.)
> >
> >Eric