**** RARE ***** ISA card

From: John Ruschmeyer <jruschme_at_hiway1.exit109.com>
Date: Wed Apr 28 08:10:28 1999

> > 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.

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.

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.

<<<john>>>
Received on Wed Apr 28 1999 - 08:10:28 BST