Aaron Grewell wrote:
>
> Hello all, I've got a "name that ancient hardware" question. These are so
> much fun. Next week I get to work on my first Atari ST! Anyway, on to the
> business at hand. I was given an HP 7475A plotter. I'd like to hook it up
> for my father since he has an interest in CAD drafting. It has an HP-IB
> interface, which I thought was just another parallel interface. HP says it's
> some kind of network interface, and that plugging it into a standard PC is
> "impossible". Has anybody worked with these beasts before? Can I convince
> it to talk to ethernet somehow.
It is just a standard GPIB interface, it is used a lot to interface test
equipment to computers. You ned to make sure your CAD software
supports the plotter and then I recommend going to E-Bay and buying a
used interface card. If you realy want to spend the bucks National
Instruments I believe still makes them. Once the card software drivers
are installed and id numbers asignned to the card and plotter it sould
work.
BoB C
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