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Adalin · 03-25-2017, 09:11 PM

Hello

for some time I have randomly collected various old HPIB equipment that was thrown out in various locations that I would like to connect to my HP71b.

I do have a HP-IL/HP-IB interface 82169A connected to my HP71b

But I cant seem to get it to work

I have a Thinkjet 2225A HPIB printer and a HP9122S HPIB disk drive

I never worked with HPIB so I am not familiar with how it works, I do know that I need to set the address jumpers on the back and I set "1" on both units, I only connect one at the time to the 82169A for the moment.

I have tried to read both the HPIL manual and the 82169A manual but I cant understand how to interface them with each other.

If I do

RESTORE IO
it passes so communication with 82169A is good

but If I do

PRINTER IS :PRINTER
I get:
HPIL ERR:Device not found

But as I understand it this command is for the HPIL printer and not the HPIB

I think I need to initialize the printer in some way so that the 82169A knows what address the printer is on but I cant seem to find how to

the same with the HP9122S no luck at all

I might be missing some information how to do this, I have tried to read all manuals I could find about the subject but as I said, I have never worked with HPIB or HPIL

It would be nice to be able to save data from my HP71b on a diskette and to be able to print stuff and perhaps connect it to my oscilloscope and multimeter and various instruments.

I do actually have two HP71b with HPIL interfaces, is it possible to transfer data between these units with the HPIL interface?