On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Ed via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> The shipping cost would be obscene! > Ed# > > > In a message dated 9/24/2017 6:57:29 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, > cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: > > > On I Sep 23, 2017, at 4:23 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > The 7970E comes in an HP-IB version > > Indeed, and I even have one of these beautiful tapes! I managed to > interface it to my HP 85 but that was very hard. It required bus sniffing > work, an > FPGA adapter, and making an HP 85 "driver" for the thing (see the result > in a demo here: https://youtu.be/YS9dGYUbNd0). Great to know the same > tape > works out the box on an HP 9845. Yet one more reason for me to get one > ;-). > But my, from Sweden, that's going to be a monster shipping and customs > headache. > Marc > > > I have one of these with pretty bad screen rot, and I'm not sure if my HPIB controller is working right - but the system itself runs pretty well. One of my local collector friends has developed an approach to pull the face shield and replace the adhesive - on my list of things to do.... -- Ian -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Principal Investigator, "Reflections on Early Computing and Social Change", UW IRB #42619 Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
