id these HP cards? HP 3000? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

21 Mar 2003

Joe &lt;rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com&gt; wrote:
...
    Can anyone tell me what these cards are for?  HP
30145-60001
 marked ATP AIB, HP 26069-60001 marked DEV HP-IB TRANSLATOR, HP
 31262-69001 marked CHAN GIC. These measure 14"x 11" and have four
 edge connectors along the back edge. I searched th enet and didn't
 find mush info except that a couple of re-sellers have some for
 sale but they don't provice any additional info. One site did
 indicate that one of these might be for the HP 3000. 
These cards probably came from an HP 3000 4X/5X/6X/70.

ATP is "Advanced Terminal Processor", an asynchronous terminal
interface.  I'm not sure what part of it you have.

GIC is "General I/O Channel", an HP-IB interface.

I'm thinking the "HP-IB TRANSLATOR" is a board that connects to the
GIC and provides some other sort of interface, in particular a
parallel differential line printer interface.  It's been a while but I
think we had a couple of these in a 64/68/70 when it had HP 2617 and
2619 printers attached.

-Frank McConnell