HP 7580A questions

[Joe R.]

At 12:16 AM 8/5/05 +0200, you wrote:
>I was thinking of buying one of these or similar : 
>http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/1233

  Yeouch! What does that thing cost????  I sold a butt load of older NI
HP_IB cards to a guy for $115/ea. I found out he was using them for
trade-ins to NI and they were giving him twice that much in trade-in so the
new stuff has GOT to be expensive.  Computer Boards and some other used to
make exact clones of the NI stuff but for a lot less money.

   Joe


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>They seem to be well supported on modern systems.
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>Stefan.
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>At 19:30 4-8-2005, you wrote:
>>At 05:25 PM 8/4/05 +0200, you wrote:
>> >Tony,
>> >
>> >I haven't hooked it up to any system because I dont have any system
>> >to hook it up to.
>> >That is sort of my second question; if I would buy a modern PCI GPIB
>> >card would I be able to make it work with the 7580A or other similar
>>devices ?
>>
>>    It should.  I used to use a HP 7550 over a serial port on my PC running
>>Win 3.1. Windows already had a driver for it. It was cool to write a
>>document then change the colors in different parts of it and then print it
>>on the plotter. The plotter would DRAW each letter and change pens when
>>necessary. And it was fast! It was cool as hell to watch it in action!  The
>>plotter couldn't handle things with raster (large areas) graphics but it
>>was fine for things that only included vectors such as text.
>>
>>    If you go buy a HP-IB card then make sure that it includes drivers or
>>that you can get drivers for it. My suggestion would be to find an old PC
>>that has ISA slots then find an ISA HP-IB card. They're both CHEAP these
days.
>>
>>     Joe
>>
>>
>> >
>> >Stefan.
>> >
>> >At 02:01 4-8-2005, you wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > I dug up a HP 7580A and hooked it up, it seems to work fine.
>> >> > But the question is now, how do I make it do anything, WITHOUT 
>> a system ?
>> >> > Pressin pen down doesn't do much, and although I can move left and
>> >> > right I cant make it move the paper forward and backward.
>> >>
>> >>Are you saying these functions do work correctly from the computer
>> >>interface (in other words you can send it (presuambly) an HPGL file and
>> >>get it to plot it correctly?).
>> >>
>> >>If so, have you checked that that the frontpanel buttons are actually
>> >>making proper contact?
>> >>
>> >>-tony
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