LISTSERV - HP3000-L Archives

HP3000-L Archives

January 2010, Week 4

HP3000-L@RAVEN.UTC.EDU

	LISTSERV Archives
	HP3000-L Home
	HP3000-L January 2010, Week 4

	Log In
	Register

	Subscribe or Unsubscribe

	Search Archives

Options:	Use Monospaced Font Show Text Part by Default Show All Mail Headers
Message:	[<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic:	[<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author:	[<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Subject:	Classic MPE Hardware to PC Hard Drive Question
From:	"John K." <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	John K.
Date:	Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:15:32 -0500
Content-Type:	text/plain
Parts/Attachments:	text/plain (21 lines)

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
*** When replying to this message, please do not delete these ***
*** signature lines. Otakon Katsucon HP3000-L @classiccmp.org ***
*** DigitalCosplay.com    JohnKorbPhoto.com                   ***

* To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, *
* etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *

ATOM RSS1 RSS2

RAVEN.UTC.EDU