Jeff Liebermann wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" hath wroth:

Jeff Liebermann wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" hath wroth:

Have you EVER seen any instrumentation cards for a MAC? I've seen
ISA, EISA, PCI and the pc-104 industrial variant os the EISA buss.

Add EPIC, EPIC Express, ITX, Mini-ITX, Nano-ITX, EBX, PCI-104, PC-104
Plus, CompactPCI, EPIC, EPIC-Express, PC/104, PC/104-Plus,
PC/104-Express, PICMG, AMC, ETX, ECX, XTX, COM-Express, COM-Express,
and probably a few I've missed. PC's own the industrial control
market. The catch is that most boards are rather expensive.

Sorry about the duplicated acronyms.


:-)


The HP 85 desktop computer with the tape drive, tiny monochrome
monitor and IEEE-488 port was used at Microdyne for some very old
equipment for test and alignment, till they finally hired a programmer
to write new software for a PC.
http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/hp85.html

You could have used an emulator.


Most of the software needed updated, anyway. The equipment being
tested had the newer IEEE-488 implementation, and the old system
couldn't make use of it. We had five of them and the cal lab could
barely keep two running. There were days we had to forcible take the
only working unit away from engineering to ship on time. After the new
software was ready, they bought a pile of NI boards for the Win 95
computers used in test and engineering. (This was pre Y2K)


Some of the old HP test hardware has
been emulated on a PC as a means of preserving the investment in
software. For the HP85:
http://www.kaser.com/hp85.html

Incidentally, I collect HP calculators:
http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/pics/hp-calc/
Ugh. Those are ancient photos. My collection is easily twice as
large today. I also do some repairs:
http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/pics/hp65/
in my non-existent spare time.

http://www.measurementcomputing.com/index.html was our supplier for
PC-104 IEEE-488 interface boards. They used to be Computer Boards, Inc.

They still own http:/www.ComputerBoards.com I used to buy
relatively cheap ISA and PCI I/O cards from them.


I may still have a few of the padded shipping boxes, some of each
name.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida