HP 85 stuff

From: Eric J. Korpela <korpela_at_ellie.ssl.berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue Jul 4 12:08:00 2000

> HP85s with an HPIB interface and a mass storage ROM (IIRC) can support
> floppy drives. If you have this sort of set-up, it's worth copying any
> tapes you find onto floppies.

On a related note. I have several machines with HPIB/GPIB/IEEE-???
type interfaces, and occasionally see disk drives with the same interface.
Is the protocol such that one size fits all? Is there a good HPIB reference
available that someone could recommend? Could a PC with a GPIB card act
as a file server, or is there some host/slave dichotomy that prevents such
things?

Eric
Received on Tue Jul 04 2000 - 12:08:00 BST