4 Aug
2005
4 Aug
'05
2:54 p.m.
At 12:16 AM 8/5/05 +0200, you wrote:
I was thinking of buying one of these or similar :
http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/1233
Yeouch! What does that thing cost???? I sold a butt load of older NI
HP_IB cards to a guy for $115/ea. I found out he was using them for
trade-ins to NI and they were giving him twice that much in trade-in so the
new stuff has GOT to be expensive. Computer Boards and some other used to
make exact clones of the NI stuff but for a lot less money.
Joe
They seem to be well supported on modern systems.
Stefan.
At 19:30 4-8-2005, you wrote:
>At 05:25 PM 8/4/05 +0200, you wrote:
> >Tony,
> >
> >I haven't hooked it up to any system because I dont have any system
> >to hook it up to.
> >That is sort of my second question; if I would buy a modern PCI GPIB
> >card would I be able to make it work with the 7580A or other similar
>devices ?
>
> It should. I used to use a HP 7550 over a serial port on my PC running
>Win 3.1. Windows already had a driver for it. It was cool to write a
>document then change the colors in different parts of it and then print it
>on the plotter. The plotter would DRAW each letter and change pens when
>necessary. And it was fast! It was cool as hell to watch it in action! The
>plotter couldn't handle things with raster (large areas) graphics but it
>was fine for things that only included vectors such as text.
>
> If you go buy a HP-IB card then make sure that it includes drivers or
>that you can get drivers for it. My suggestion would be to find an old PC
>that has ISA slots then find an ISA HP-IB card. They're both CHEAP these
days.
Joe
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Stefan.
At 02:01 4-8-2005, you wrote:
> >
> > I dug up a HP 7580A and hooked it up, it seems to work fine.
> > But the question is now, how do I make it do anything, WITHOUT
a system
?
>> > Pressin pen down doesn't do much, and although I can move left and
>> > right I cant make it move the paper forward and backward.
>>
>>Are you saying these functions do work correctly from the computer
>>interface (in other words you can send it (presuambly) an HPGL file and
>>get it to plot it correctly?).
>>
>>If so, have you checked that that the frontpanel buttons are actually
>>making proper contact?
>>
>>-tony
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