HP-IB Census

[der Mouse]

> I am compiling some information for a HP-IB KnowledgeBase article /
> FAQ and need some input.  [...]

> * Introduction / Tutorial  - Basic overview of the protocol
> * Protocols - HP-IB, GPIB, SICL, IEEE-488, etc... 
> * Characteristics - Electrical and physical characteristics
> * Instruments - Talking to instruments
> * Bus Analyzers - IE HP59401A
> * CS-80 disks - The CS-80 / SS-80 protocols
> * Programming - Linux, HP-UX, C, assembler, other

Well, personally, I've got a bunch of HP-IB stuff and a small amount of
other IEEE 488 stuff and I'd like to know anything I need to make them
play nice together.  This probably includes the first four items on
your list and to some extent the last - though programming doco that's
all about how to use someone else's binary-only libraries would be of
little use to me.  Maybe the second-last, though I don't know whether
the disks I have are CS-80 disks.

In particular, I have an IEEE488 card for my SPARCs and I'd like to
make it act like a disk to the HP machines I have.

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