21 Jul
2005
21 Jul
'05
4:52 p.m.
Pat Fitzpatrick wrote:
As for the HP64000s, the consoles are ok, but the disk
drive drowned. From a quick search, I'm not real optimistic about finding another HPIB
disk drive and I'm not too excited about plunging into this one to try and fix him (he
was running when the waters came and he smells very bad). Has anyone ever taught a PC (for
example) with a GPIB card to think it's a CS80 Drive?? Does anyone have a spare disk
gathering dust? Failing that, does anyone (besides me) still use these things? The
consoles are probably too heavy to ship, but I have lots of cards, software, manuals etc
in working order if anyone needs them.
I started a project on Sourceforge (softcs80) to do that. I found the
specs on bitsavers (Thanks Al) and they don't look to terribly bad... If
only a PCI GPIB card would be a bit cheaper...
Kind regards,
Maurice