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| Sonnet Encore and LC PDS GPIB Card | |
| Posted by: CelGen on 2013-02-20 18:05:30 Unexpected find at the second hand store.  You can't see it in the picture but it uses the same connector we see on the IIe emulation card. Now I got GPIB for NuBus and the LC but I know of NOTHING that actually uses these things. The big ticket $10 item was an Encore G4/1000 for the Powermac G3 Unfortunately it had been badly handled and as such even with straightening all the pins I lost two and so now the accelerator doesn't work. xx(   | |
| Posted by: Unknown_K on 2013-02-20 19:17:34 You have the stubs, rip apart a generic G3 zif and solder on the good pins. | |
| Posted by: CelGen on 2013-02-21 00:40:55 The pins I taped to the side of the accelerator. The entire PGA is oddly a surface mount part. | |
| Posted by: ClassicHasClass on 2013-02-21 06:38:15 That's some second-hand store you have. I have some IEEE-488 Commodore PET-era disk drives which should connect to it (with conversion since it doesn't sound like a standard GPIB connector), but they're for my PETs and I don't think there's a lot of benefit to connecting them to the LC. :lol: Also, my HP 9000/350 has GPIB to the hard disk and floppies. | |
| Posted by: CelGen on 2013-02-21 10:13:46 GPIB, HP-IB and IEEE-488 are essentially the same thing. Almost all HP gear has it for linking all your lab equipment together. Hell, they used it on their much larger disk pack drives. I have an HP-85 with an HP-IB module the looking at the burn-in was attached to a mass spectrometer however I wouldn't doubt you could make it run a regulated power supply and print data from a logic analyzer. However that's HP. National Instruments apparently saw a market for the mac but I have NEVER seen one of these cards being used for anything. I have never seven seen any mac software that had an option for using GPIB. | |
| Posted by: Unknown_K on 2013-02-21 13:53:38 Labview for mac used that port. | |
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