New to list -- Many Issues -- Many Parts Available.

[Maurice Smulders]

Pat Fitzpatrick wrote:

> As for the HP64000s, the consoles are ok, but the disk drive drowned. 
> From a quick search, I'm not real optimistic about finding another 
> HPIB disk drive and I'm not too excited about plunging into this one 
> to try and fix him (he was running when the waters came and he smells 
> very bad). Has anyone ever taught a PC (for example) with a GPIB card 
> to think it's a CS80 Drive?? Does anyone have a spare disk gathering 
> dust? Failing that, does anyone (besides me) still use these things? 
> The consoles are probably too heavy to ship, but I have lots of cards, 
> software, manuals etc in working order if anyone needs them.
>  
>
I started a project on Sourceforge (softcs80) to do that. I found the 
specs on bitsavers (Thanks Al) and they don't look to terribly bad... If 
only a PCI GPIB card would be a bit cheaper...

Kind regards,

Maurice