Allschwil Meeting 2014

[J-F Garnier]

(09-23-2014 02:06 PM)Mike (Stgt) Wrote:  Only three workshop contributors yet? Well, going to the depth that may be enough for 4 hrs.

I see five workshopers :-)
My main topic will be about PIL-IO applications (the PIL-Box is already well-known...) : using HP-IL to control I/Os and communicate with an Arduino board.
But there are other subjects we can discuss about...

And I will propose to PIL-Box owners present in the meeting a free firmware update. Bring your PIL-Box(es) !

J-F

[walter b]

(09-23-2014 02:55 PM)J-F Garnier Wrote:  I see five workshopers :-)

I'm looking forward to it

BTW, there should be six workshopers by now.

d:-)

[HP-Collection]

Latest informations for the meeting on november 1st were sent to all registrated attenders. If you want to join too, drop me a mail.

[patrice]

If you got a 71B with problems, I will bring an HP71 Diagnostic ROM.

[HP-Collection]

LAST REMINDER

This Saturday: Allschwil Meeting 2014

[HP-Collection]

Why???

[MeindertKuipers]

Unfortunately I will not be attending the meeting in Allschwill this coming weekend. I am in between business trips and decided I wanted to spend the weekend at home. I wish you all to ENTER a very good meeting and a STACK full of fun!

Meindert

[Marcus von Cube]

(10-30-2014 07:16 PM)MeindertKuipers Wrote:  Unfortunately I will not be attending the meeting in Allschwill this coming weekend.

Schade...

[Dave Frederickson]

In addition to all the calculator talk, those of us who won't be attending will be missing this.

[Thomas Klemm]

(10-31-2014 11:01 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  those of us who won't be attending will be missing this.

Not all of them.

[Marcus von Cube]

I'm back from the meeting and I enjoyed it very much. We had a real life demonstration of a Kern theodolite from the 80ies with an HP 41cy (W&W) and three HP-IL devices (printer, diskette and a new device made of a PIL-IO board and an Arduino that emulates a disk drive on an SD card. The system is still in active duty!

[d b]

(11-01-2014 10:24 PM)Marcus von Cube Wrote:  I'm back from the meeting and I enjoyed it very much. We had a real life demonstration of a Kern theodolite from the 80ies with an HP 41cy (W&W) and three HP-IL devices (printer, diskette and a new device made of a PIL-IO board and an Arduino that emulates a disk drive on an SD card. The system is still in active duty!

Marcus;
Glad to hear it was an interesting meeting.
Fine instruments and great equipment may go out of style, but what is style but a popularity contest? A Kern & 41 system would be a joy to use.
Did the theodolite use the Kern 4 legged tripod? Those were cool, and fast to set up once one got accustomed to it.

[Namir]

Did anyone take a video of the presentations--to be posted on YouTube?

Namir

[Didier Lachieze]

(11-01-2014 10:24 PM)Marcus von Cube Wrote:  and a new device made of a PIL-IO board and an Arduino that emulates a disk drive on an SD card. The system is still in active duty!

A PIL-IO board? That's interesting because in the design that was presented some time ago on this forum a PIL-BOX, not a PIL-IO, was required.

[HP-Collection]

(11-02-2014 09:11 AM)Didier Lachieze Wrote:  

(11-01-2014 10:24 PM)Marcus von Cube Wrote:  and a new device made of a PIL-IO board and an Arduino that emulates a disk drive on an SD card. The system is still in active duty!

A PIL-IO board? That's interesting because in the design that was presented some time ago on this forum a PIL-BOX, not a PIL-IO, was required.

We have seen both units: the PIL-IO from Jean-Francois garnier as well as your linked unit: Thanks Tobie for this brilliant job.
It is now working on the Kern theodolite. The guy who showed us the theodolite is a swiss surveyor who is still working with HP-41CY, so this is NO joy for us

[HP-Collection]

An eventful day is behind us. Numerous names have gotten a face and I was able to inform me in a very wide array of the latest developments. The cozy dinner at ZickZack, with some obscure figures next to us was a grand finale.
I want to thank you all with all my heart for the beautiful day and I look forward to seeing you again in Allschwil.
I will make a short summary in my website with all issues we were talking about and the related workshoper so that every (U.S.) guy can see, what he was missing

[charger73]

(11-02-2014 09:11 AM)Didier Lachieze Wrote:  

(11-01-2014 10:24 PM)Marcus von Cube Wrote:  and a new device made of a PIL-IO board and an Arduino that emulates a disk drive on an SD card. The system is still in active duty!

A PIL-IO board? That's interesting because in the design that was presented some time ago on this forum a PIL-BOX, not a PIL-IO, was required.

it is possible to use a PIL-BOX or a PIL-IO with PIL-BOX Firmware..

Best regards,
Tobie

[HP-Collection]

So, finally my short report of the Allschwil Meeting 2014 is online. You can find it here:

Allschwil Meeting 2014 Report

(sorry, german only, as long as nobody wants to do a better translation than Google translate)

[Sylvain Cote]

(11-03-2014 07:56 PM)Mike (Stgt) Wrote:  For my HP-GL plotter linked to Virtual IL i found one beta tester, so it is quite probable that it will be published one day.

If you need another beta tester, I would be interested to test your implementation.
I have two HP-7470A:
1) HP-7470A-003 (HP-IL)
2) HP-7470A-002 (HP-IB) + HP-82169A (HP-IL/IB interface)
and I do have the usual setup (controllers, modules & PIL-Boxes) to test with.

Sylvain

[J-F Garnier]

Hello all,

I put my PIL-IO presentation on line here.

J-F