HP DraftMaster I

Roy J. Tellason rtellason at verizon.net
Sat Sep 1 15:59:47 CDT 2007


On Thursday 30 August 2007 17:38, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 30 Aug 2007 at 16:20, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > I can imagine someone cutting a Centronics printer cable in half, and
> > asking how to connect it to the severed end of an HPIB cable...
>
> Not out of the question in my book.  A PC parallel port can drive a
> single HPIB device just fine--all it takes is software... :)

And while they're not "PC"s,  Osborne computers typically had a "Printer/IEEE" 
port...

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