11/34 & Cool stuff, but what is it? (Q-bus gear) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Nov 1999

...
 > >Then the other interesting card was a national
instruments 179055-01 which
> >has an Intel 8291? on board (date code of either '84 or '91). Sort of a
> >weird 40 pin connector that goes to what looks like the old GPIB connectors.
> 
> Yep, it's a IEEE-496 interface. 
...
 A what? Is this some varient of IEEE-488, or something
totally different? 
Whoops, wrong IEEE number there :-).  I meant IEEE-488, as you figured
out.

I believe that the confusion was caused by IEEE-696, aka "S-100"...

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