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Sonnet Encore and LC PDS GPIB Card
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(
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(
You have the stubs, rip apart a generic G3 zif and solder on the good pins.
The pins I taped to the side of the accelerator. The entire PGA is oddly a surface mount part.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Labview for mac used that port.