28 Apr
1999
28 Apr
'99
3:49 a.m.
On 27 Apr 99 at 23:33, Mike Ford wrote:
**** RARE ***** ISA card, will trade for small plane
or country
I don't want to be the reason some poor guy out in the world stops using a
piece of equipment due to the cost of some critical part that I have. OTOH
if there are TWO such people needing the item, I see no reason why the one
that "needs" it the most doesn't get it.
BTW the card is a HP 48L REV A 88290-66501, the fingers look ISA to me, the
connector looks DB25F, and the label on the bracket says Scanjet I/F card.
What exactly is this, just a scanner controller card?
<CRAWLS OUT FROM UNDER DESK> Yes, I have one of these too I guess.
This is labelled C2502-66500 REV B 1994. The date sounds about right
as I remember ordering it. Mine has a bar code label with the
marking 4HE3PFG. From the documentation, ISTR that it is just a
barebones SCSI card that is designed to just about work with
an HP Scanjet. The SCSI Scanjet will also work with a proper SCSI
card so not having one is no great loss.
<\CRAWLS OUT FROM UNDER DESK>
Phil
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28 Apr
28 Apr
4:10 a.m.
I don't
want to be the reason some poor guy out in the world stops using a
piece of equipment due to the cost of some critical part that I have. OTOH
if there are TWO such people needing the item, I see no reason why the one
that "needs" it the most doesn't get it.
BTW the card is a HP 48L REV A 88290-66501, the fingers look ISA to me, the
connector looks DB25F, and the label on the bracket says Scanjet I/F card.
What exactly is this, just a scanner controller card?
<CRAWLS OUT FROM UNDER DESK> Yes, I have one of these too I guess.
This is labelled C2502-66500 REV B 1994. The date sounds about right
as I remember ordering it. Mine has a bar code label with the
marking 4HE3PFG. From the documentation, ISTR that it is just a
barebones SCSI card that is designed to just about work with
an HP Scanjet. The SCSI Scanjet will also work with a proper SCSI
card so not having one is no great loss. 
10:40 a.m.
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, John Ruschmeyer wrote:
Only the ScanJet II and later are SCSI. The earliest ones used a proprietary
interface, referred to as a "parallel" interface in the docs.
The one Mike has is definately the proprietary one (I also have one sitting
here). It was packed with scanners like the ScanJet Plus.
Not quite. The 88290 is only usable with the original Scanjet. The
Scanjet+ required the 88295 version. The 88290s were at one time made
available again by HP for ~$400 which reflected costs of restablishing a
short run production and handling. With what has happened to scanner
prices in recent months, it is unlikely that anyone in their right mind
would pay anything like that today.
I don't want to be the reason some poor guy out in
the world stops using a
piece of equipment due to the cost of some critical part that I have. OTOH
if there are TWO such people needing the item, I see no reason why the one
that "needs" it the most doesn't get it.
BTW the card is a HP 48L REV A 88290-66501, the fingers look ISA to me, the
connector looks DB25F, and the label on the bracket says Scanjet I/F card.
What exactly is this, just a scanner controller card?
<CRAWLS OUT FROM UNDER DESK> Yes, I have one of these too I guess.
This is labelled C2502-66500 REV B 1994. The date sounds about right
as I remember ordering it. Mine has a bar code label with the
marking 4HE3PFG. From the documentation, ISTR that it is just a
barebones SCSI card that is designed to just about work with
an HP Scanjet. The SCSI Scanjet will also work with a proper SCSI
card so not having one is no great loss. The SCSI ones have been packed with a variety of
simple SCSI interfaces.
IIRC, my former employer's ScanJet IIp came with a tiny card that was
little more than a 5380 and some ISA glue.
True. The 2502 card that Phil Beesley has is probably a 53C400A based
card and is usable with Scanjet IIp, IIcx, 3c, 3p, 4c, 4p, etc.
- don
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