Re: the 9-track thread on the HP 7970:
Mention has been made that it seems to have an HPIB interface. I ran into
the same thing with an HP7974 drive that I acquired from Teltone here in
Washington state.
However, I also found that the HPIB interface consisted of a removable
cage with three cards and its own power supply. Once this subassembly was
removed, the drive itself appeared to be a standard Pertec interface. I
have yet to actually try it, but a pair of 50-pin card-edge connections
sure look like Pertec to me.
I will let the group know once I get a chance to actually try it.
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Received on Wed Aug 20 1997 - 09:01:35 BST