A cool vintage hardware hack.

From: Jay West <jwest_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Tue Jan 28 06:57:01 2003

Eric wrote...
> Can the computer distinguish a 7906H attached to the 13037 box via HPIB
> from an 7906D attached to the 13037 box by the "traditional" interface?
> I'd like to think that because the 13037 box is an "intelligent"
controller,
> they should look the same to the host.

I've never looked at it from the software side. My gut feeling though, is
that
the host has no way of knowing if a drive attached to the 13037 box that has
the HPIB option is a D or an H.
Received on Tue Jan 28 2003 - 06:57:01 GMT