Thanks, I'll give that a try.
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 04:03 pm, you wrote:
> 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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