Viper cards Re: What's your coolest ISA card?( was Re: IBM 5150 PC)

From: joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Wed Aug 8 07:53:17 2001

At 04:00 PM 8/7/01 -0400, you wrote:
>joe wrote:
>
> > I have an ISA card made by HP that is called a "BASIC langauage
> > processor card" or more commonly referred to as a "Viper" card. The card
> > contains RAM, BASIC in ROM (optional), a 68000 CPU and a GPIB port. When
> > you run the driver program on the PC, the card takes over the system and it
> > behaves exactly like a HP 9836! Including the ability to operate HP-IB
> > devices and use HP-IB disk drives, printers, plotters, etc. Most of the
> > viper cards used a disk based language but you could get BASIC and Pascal
> > in ROM form. I've only seen a few of these cards and they all ran BASIC but
> > I'm told that you could get HPL, BASIC and Pascal. I've also been told
> > that there was a "hyper-viper" card that used a 68010 or 68020 but I've
> > never talked to anyone that's seen one.
> >
>
>Real cool! I'll keep my eyes open for that one...


      FWIW I open and check EVERY HP PC-type computer that I find and
look for those cards. Also I recently found a complete SW package for the
viper card on E-bay. It was brand new and still sealed in plastic. I was
the only bidder on it. That's the kind of thing that E-bay is good for!

    Joe
      Joe


>Eric
>
>
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > At 10:54 AM 8/7/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> > >I have a 16 bit ISA card that is a Motorola 68020 with 68881 (or is it the
> > >68882?). Anyway the card
> > >is a complete single board computer that plugs into your AT system. It
> is made
> > >by a company called
> > >DSI and came with C and FORTRAN, I believe.
> > >
> > >I actually collect ISA cards that have interesting processors on them
> (i.e.
> > >80186, 68000, 68020, 386
> > >486, etc.)
> > >
> > >Eric
Received on Wed Aug 08 2001 - 07:53:17 BST