HP 7580A questions

[Stefan]

About 150 dollars, some will come cheaper, some more expensive, 
depends on who you buy them from. Its not cheap for a card I suppose 
but than again, if it works I can imagine me having fun with it so :-)

At 20:54 4-8-2005, you wrote:
>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
>
>
> >
> >They seem to be well supported on modern systems.
> >
> >Stefan.
> >
> >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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