remember a hpib small drive  was just a  regular drive sometimes  with a  
hpib interface board hooked to it...
 
was so  with   workstations and I assume the  small  3000  drives  same?  
My 3000 drive times  were with  the   washing machine sized oldies  (7925 etc.
 
Thanks,

Ed Sharpe, Archivist for  SMECC 

Web Site at _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org/) 

We are always looking for  items to add to the museum's display and ref. 
library - please advise if you  have anything we can use.

Coury House / SMECC
5802 W. Palmaire Ave.  Phone 623-435-1522
Glendale Az 85301 USA






In a message dated 1/21/2010 10:11:11 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
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I have a  couple of old Classic MPE V/E boxes which I fire up 
periodically.   Everything runs at present, but the hard drive 
bearings are starting to  sing and warn me of their impending 
failure.  If you remember, the  old Classic boxes use HPIB (GPIB, 
IEEE-488) as the interface for hard  drives.

As HPIB hard drives are getting pretty rare, I'm wondering if  anyone 
has been successful in putting a GPIB-to-PCI interface card in a  
Windows PC, writing code for the PC to make its GPIB interface look 
to  the Classic 3000 like a 7937, and then successfully running the 
Classic  3000 with this PC-based pseudo-7937 as its LDEV 0.  If so, 
I'd love  to hear about it.

John
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