A cool vintage hardware hack.

From: Bob Shannon <bshannon_at_tiac.net>
Date: Sat Feb 8 14:56:00 2003

I'll try to dig up an old copy of an HP-users grup magazine that has an
in-depth article on the transition to
HPIB drives on 13037 controllers. Perhaps it will answer your questions
bettern than I can't.

Eric Smith wrote:

>Bob Shannon wrote:
>
>>Take a look at the interface schematics for the 13037 (interface) versus
>> the 12821A. There is near-zero doubt that
>>these need totally different drivers, as MAC disks make a good deal of
>>lower-level information
>>available to the controller than CS/80 does.
>>
>
>I'm not asking whether an -H drive on a 12821A looks like a non-H on
>a 13037. I know they don't. The 12821 has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with
>my question, which was whether the -H and non-H drives attached to a
>13037 look the same to software.
>
>Whether RTE supports H drives on a 13037 also has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to
>do with my question. But I'd be somewhat surprised if it didn't; the
>HPIB option on the 13037 had to have been used by *something*.
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