The cables I
have do not look like the Wikipedia page picture; they
have matte metal shells with black screws rather than black shells
with metallic-appearing screws. [...]
There are different version of the HP-IB
cables sold by HP, some have
molded connectors others have metal connector. Some cables are
shielded heavily others have a less thick shielding, the standard
instrumentation HP-IB bus has a transfer rate from 250-500kB/s.
Later they developed the High speed HP-IB bus for data transport
between computers and peripherals, this bus is terminated and has a
transfer rate of 5MB/s.
I suspect my cables are the designed-for-computer sort. Not only did I
get them with computers, they look _ridiculously_ heavily shielded.
Before I left Montreal, a friend was visiting and looking at that
stuff. I have an HP-IB disk drive that holds about half a gig and
weighs about half what I do; he looked at it and the cables and said it
might be heavy, but when they nuke Montreal it's not going to even
_notice_ the EMP. I think that was an exaggeration, but that's sure
how they look.
I do not, however, have any terminators, nor any indication that they
might be necessary, nor even desirable.
[...], the HS cables are also thicker.
My cables are about the size of thicknet Ethernet cable (though much
more flexible).
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