Strange PCBs found at hamfest - GPIB?

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Sun Nov 2 08:46:56 2003

On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Philip Pemberton wrote:

> Can someone tell me what the 96LS488DC is? From what I can tell, it's a
> GPIB controller, whatever GPIB is. I'm still after a datasheet - nothing on
> Google besides a Chipdir listing.
GPIB is the General Purpose Interface Bus. If memory serves me right,
this is the same as HP's IEEE488 (HPIB) bus, which was meant to be a
simple bus useable to connect HP's test/measure equipment together
to controlling computers, for example. I believe the GPIB was a
somewhat more generalized description, but essentially the same
bus.

--fred (back to work on his barely on-topic VAX 3100-85 of 1993)
Received on Sun Nov 02 2003 - 08:46:56 GMT