--- Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net> wrote:
> There's an Amiga 3000 on eBay that purports to have a
> Zorro-II GPIB interface. This is the first time I've heard of one of
> these.
I haven't seen _this_ one, but ISTR that ADSG had a stackable I/O
board with GPIB as one of the option modules.
> Does anyone have one?
Having never _heard_ of it (and being a big GPIB fan from PET days and
a big Amiga fan from more recent days), I would be surprised if they
sold more than a handful. If you have an old AC Guide, you might look
them up to see if they were ever reviewed in the product guide.
> What was it used for?
Talking to lab instruments - volt meters, frequency counters, pH meters,
etc.
If they had a decent driver or an API for C (or possibly BASIC ;-),
one could write code to talk to whatever you wanted, HP and Commodore
equipment, most commonly. I always wanted to be able to hook a 4040
drive or the like up to a modern computer (yes, I know there are ways
to do that now); this would have helped accomplish that 5-10 years ago.
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2048082800
-ethan
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Received on Tue Aug 27 2002 - 12:17:00 BST