13 Sep
2002
13 Sep
'02
12:12 p.m.
At 11:22 PM 9/12/02 -0700, you wrote:
Does anyone on the list have a copy of this manual that
can be copied or
scanned, or is there a scanned copy on the net somewhere already?
I think Frank McConnell has one. He used to be on this list but I haven't seen
anything from him in quite a spell.
I have a couple of CS/80 HPIB disk drives and I am curious how they are
controlled and would like to read the CS/80 programming manual if I can find
one.
The drives I have are a 9133H which is a combo 20MB hard drive and floppy
drive unit which I have used with my HP IPC,
I'm using a HP 7958 in my IPC. It's not listed as being recommended for the IPC
but it works fine. Every HP hard drive that I've tried on the IPC has worked fine on
it.
and a 2203A which is a whopping
670MB dual disk unit which I haven't hooked up to
anything yet. Was that
the biggest CS/80 HPIB drive HP ever made?
No, I know that some versions of the HP 7963 were larger. Probably others as well. The
7963 is in a box that is the same height and width as the standard HP hard drives but
it's much deeper. It comes standard with one 330 Mb drive installed but you (or HP)
can add two (or 3?) more drives inside the box. I looked it up in the '86 HP catalog
one time and the price for a fully loaded 7963 was about $22,000!!!! I used to have a
7963 but I don't remember what I did with it. It may still be in the shed outside. I
never tried it on the IPC. The ~80 Mb 7958 has far more capacity than I'll ever use on
the IPC.
Joe
Some day I'll try interfacing
one of the drives to the HP 2117F box I have if I can
ever figure out how to
get it to power up.
-Glen
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