HP-1000 HP-IB / GP-IB IEEE-488.2, etc

HP-IB, GP-IB and IEEE-488.2 seem to refer to the same more-or-less compatible bus architecture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_488 I'm hoping to get GP-IB storage setup on my HP-1000 systems eventually. I've picked up: HP 59310-60101 "BUS INPUT/OUTPUT INTERFACE" - low speed GP-IB card HP-9122C - dual 3.5" GP-IB floppy drive (Thanx Stan!) However I don't have the cable to wire from one to the other. The drive has a standard IEEE-488 connector: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IEEE-488-Stecker2.jpg But the controller has a 50 pin card edge connector. Anyone have a spare cable? I've been looking at some GB-IB software tools: * http://www.hp9845.net/9845/projects/hpdrive/ emulates GP-IB drives on win32 * http://www.hp9845.net/9845/projects/hpdir/ read and write to some GP-IB media and filesystems from win32 * http://linux-gpib.sourceforge.net/ Linux GP-IB drivers and libraries. This does NOT include drive emulation or access, but it aimed at sensors and other devices that speak GB-IP Not all drives use the same protocol over GB-IP. Bitsavers has documents that cover the AMIGO and CS/80 command sets: * http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/disc/ Lots of drive docs including: * http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/disc/subset80_Jul83.pdf SS/80 and by reference some of CS/80 I do not currently have a GP-IB interface for a PC. The National Instruments PCI-GPIB cards seems popular on eBay. There are also USB-GPIB converters from NI and others. The ISA or SBus cards go for less, but then I need to find a machine with one of these slots. :) I understand that HP-7920 and HP-7925 drives were AMIGO flavor GP-IB drives. Perhaps the HP-7905 and HP-7906 as well? I'm not quite sure where the GP-IP buss comes in the picture. There is normally a contoller (13037-60028) interface between the drives and the host computer interface (02640-90042?) I presume that the bus on one side of the 13037 is IEEE-488 but I'm not sure which. Can the 026xx cards directly attach to GB-IP drives? How does the shared storage through a 13037 controller work? are they all just IDs on GB-IB? Any insight appreciated. Any hardware donations greatly appreciated. :) -- Tim Riker - http://Rikers.org/ - TimR at Debian.org Embedded Linux Technologist - http://eLinux.org/ BZFlag maintainer - http://BZFlag.org/ - for fun!