You're right -- it is a change, and this was part of the original announcement,
IIRC.  That's why we're replacing our HP-IB printers, now (plus, they go off
support next year ...:-(      ).  Hopefully, we can still convert our 7980XC's
to SCSI -- I haven't checked on that recently.

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Lee Gunter                    The Regence Group
Supervisor, TRG HP/MPE Systems     503.375.4498
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Opinions expressed are solely mine.



From: "Johnson, Tracy" <[log in to unmask]> on 10/07/99 12:41 PM

Please respond to "Johnson, Tracy" <[log in to unmask]>


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Subject:  [HP3000-L] MPE/iX 6.5 & HP-IB




I was reading in the 6.1 patch "Read Before Installing"
that "the PBA-IB HP-IB A1747A and old CIB I/O based HP 3000
Servers will not be made to work with MPE/iX 6.5 and later
releases."

Hmmmm.  "...not be made to work..."  Sounds a lot different
than the old:

"Yes, it's unsupported but will still work"

philosophy.

Tracy M. Johnson
TRW Automotive