PC-IB card hp-150

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(05-07-2024 08:35 PM)brouhaha Wrote:  

(05-07-2024 11:56 AM)rprosperi Wrote:  Was this an HP-150 specific board, or can the HP-150 use the normal ISA card HP sold for IBM compatible PC's?

The HP 150 does not accept ISA cards. It was from the era when top-tier vendors still thought they could sell PCs that were "better" than IBM's, and not fully compatible. (Even IBM made that mistake with the proprietary Mictochannel bus in most PS/2 models.)

There isn't such a thing as a "normal" PC-IB card. PC-IB is not the same as HP-IB/GP-IB/IEEE-488. PC-IB was only used for the short-lived 6101n series instruments. Both the instruments and the adapter cards are rare as hen's teeth.

Ah I found a digitizing oscilloscope with ribbon cables and the PSU for like 5 bucks at a flea market so not much of a loss. If I ever figure out how to reverse engineer which I want to learn. I'll have to see if it is possible to create the PC-IB card with just the tool and software.