Paul,

You can buy a conversion kit from HP to change the 7980xx HPIB drives
to  SCSI devices.  The HP HP-IB printers are at the end-of-support,
otherwise the solution for those devices is to convert them to
Centronics interface devices and hang them on either an Emulex NetQue or
an HP Jetdirect  print server.  The new HP printers have the parallel
port built in so you only need the print server device.

Paul Edwards wrote:
>
> I was hoping to get a solution from Black Box for the announcements from HP
> concerning MPE/iX 6.5 not supporting HPIB for printers and tape drives. Darn!
>
> tech support wrote:
>
> > Dear Sir,
> >
> > I do not know of any HPIB, (GPIB/IEEE-488) to SCSI Converters in the
> > Electronics Industry. If you know of a manufacturer that has something like
> > this, we would be happy to custom source it for you.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Dan Watkins
> > Conversions Technical Support
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Edwards [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 2:16 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: HPIB to SCSI Converter {REF: 950987824.000}
> >
> > I need a converter for HPIB to SE or FW SCSI for tape drives and
> > printers on HP 3000 systems. Support will be dropped by HP for the HPIB
> > interface next month in the new release of the MPE/iX operating system.
> > Could be a big market for you! TIA.
> >
>
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