10 Jan
2011
10 Jan
'11
9:23 a.m.
On 1/10/11 2:55 AM, Rik Bos wrote:
At the hp computer museum you can find several
documents regarding the PC
Instruments.
It is a shame they orphaned these devices. I have a box of various PCIB instruments, and
discovered
when I tried to do something with them that the PC interface and software is unobtainium.
I think I mentioned a couple of years ago how the PC interfaced instruments are just a bad
idea
from a preservation standpoint. Take the Biomation CLAS
logic analyzer. Really nice device for
the time, had a SCSI interface to the host
for user interface, but the only supported computer
was the Macintosh II. They never released the communications protocol information.