11 May
2000
11 May
'00
10:17 a.m.
At 10:47 PM 5/2/00 -0700, Earnest said something about:
>Today, I was given a bunch of interesting vintage
items.
> HP 88396 SCSI to parrallel interface.
Did you ever find out more about this?
I just picked up one of one yesterday with the cables. The other end of
the cable that fits the DB-25 connector has a male Centronics style
connector on it. The SCSI port has a feed-through type terminator on it.
Attached to that is a cable that has a micro-SCSI connector on the other
end of it. FWIW the box says "same functionality as 88395".
Joe
11 May
11 May
5:17 p.m.
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Subject: Re: Couple of cool HP 110/150 finds
At 10:47 PM 5/2/00 -0700, Earnest said something about:
>Today, I was given a bunch of interesting vintage
items.
> HP 88396 SCSI to parrallel interface.
Did you ever find out more about this?
I just picked up one of one yesterday with the cables. The other end of
the cable that fits the DB-25 connector has a male Centronics style
connector on it. The SCSI port has a feed-through type terminator on it.
Attached to that is a cable that has a micro-SCSI connector on the other
end of it. FWIW the box says "same functionality as 88395".
Joe
No, I haven't found anything out about it at all. I haven't really been
looking though, as I'm working on some other things with my Apple IIe. To
tell you the truth, I've been putting off working with my HP 150/110/110+
stuff because I want to be able to devote some serious focus time to them.
My 150 needs to be re-setup I think, and that'll be a bit complicated for me
since I haven't set one up from scratch before. I have more manuals for it
than I know what to do with, so I shouldn't have to hammer you with to many
questions.
By the way, I found a new disk for the 150 Touchscreen:
Advance Link Master#3 (45431-13003) A.01.01 2435
Upload A.01.02
Monitor 3000 A.02.04
Are you familiar with this bit of software? I'm assuming that it's comm
software for linking a 110/110+ to the 150 but I'm not sure.
I also picked up a 110+ with some manuals but no software. I'm not sure if
there even was software for the 110 series, since they're ROM based systems.
Ernest
6:48 p.m.
New subject: Couple of cool HP 110/150 finds (HP88396/395)
At 02:17 PM 5/11/00 -0500, Joe wrote:
I also have an 88395. It has been a puzzle for me. The enclosure
is the same of such HPIL gadgets as the 82164 and 82165. However,
the power supply connector is different; mine in fact had a big
wart xformer attached made by AT&T and rated 20VAC, 2A, and marked
"security isolation transformer".
Inside, there is an MC68B09FN uController, an NCR SCSI chip,
an MB8464-15 static ram, a 28 pin ROM, bridge+filter+regulator,
and finally, what seems like too much glue logic (14 chips) near
the parallel port. In particular, there is a 20 pin quad (TI 901FF)
somewhere between the data bus and the paralell port. Perhaps
some clocked parallel I/O? or a FIFO? Seems to me that they were
trying to increase the speed of the parallel port to meet that of the
SCSI chip at the other end. The chips were all manufactured in '88 or
before, so I'd say this was built in '89 . This was a device
designed to provide SCSI connectivity to something that had parallel
ports and no easy way of adding other cards; I don't think that it
was intended for Vectras. I suspect that this was designed to
give the HPIB-based 9000-300 systems (which had a parallel port) the
opportunity to talk to SCSI tape drives, perhaps even HD's (though
not for boot devices, I'm sure). 1989 is about the right time;
it was then that it became clear that HPIB hard disks were a dead end.
carlos
>Today, I
was given a bunch of interesting vintage items.
> HP 88396 SCSI to parrallel interface.
Did you ever find out more about this?
I just picked up one of one yesterday with the cables. The other end of
the cable that fits the DB-25 connector has a male Centronics style
connector on it. The SCSI port has a feed-through type terminator on it.
Attached to that is a cable that has a micro-SCSI connector on the other
end of it. FWIW the box says "same functionality as 88395".
Joe 
8:29 p.m.
New subject: Couple of cool HP 110/150 finds (HP88396/395)
On Thu, 11 May 2000, Carlos Murillo wrote:
At 02:17 PM 5/11/00 -0500, Joe wrote:
I also have an 88395. It has been a puzzle for me. The enclosure
is the same of such HPIL gadgets as the 82164 and 82165. However,
the power supply connector is different; mine in fact had a big
wart xformer attached made by AT&T and rated 20VAC, 2A, and marked
"security isolation transformer".
Carlos, if the wart is at the end of the mains cable, and the
application unit cable ends up in a 4-pin thing that looks like the head
of an old putter, it is a twin to one that I have that runs an HP
Deskjet printer. The output is 20VAC center-tapped.
- don
>Today,
I was given a bunch of interesting vintage items.
> HP 88396 SCSI to parrallel interface.
Did you ever find out more about this?
I just picked up one of one yesterday with the cables. The other end of
the cable that fits the DB-25 connector has a male Centronics style
connector on it. The SCSI port has a feed-through type terminator on it.
Attached to that is a cable that has a micro-SCSI connector on the other
end of it. FWIW the box says "same functionality as 88395".
Joe Inside, there is an MC68B09FN uController, an NCR SCSI
chip,
an MB8464-15 static ram, a 28 pin ROM, bridge+filter+regulator,
and finally, what seems like too much glue logic (14 chips) near
the parallel port. In particular, there is a 20 pin quad (TI 901FF)
somewhere between the data bus and the paralell port. Perhaps
some clocked parallel I/O? or a FIFO? Seems to me that they were
trying to increase the speed of the parallel port to meet that of the
SCSI chip at the other end. The chips were all manufactured in '88 or
before, so I'd say this was built in '89 . This was a device
designed to provide SCSI connectivity to something that had parallel
ports and no easy way of adding other cards; I don't think that it
was intended for Vectras. I suspect that this was designed to
give the HPIB-based 9000-300 systems (which had a parallel port) the
opportunity to talk to SCSI tape drives, perhaps even HD's (though
not for boot devices, I'm sure). 1989 is about the right time;
it was then that it became clear that HPIB hard disks were a dead end.
carlos
9:03 p.m.
New subject: Couple of cool HP 110/150 finds (12 HP-IB cables!)
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330189024
If you need HP-IB cables, then you might want to check out this auction.
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