My recollection is that HPIB and GPIB are 100% compatible. We were using a national instruments card, with a "turbo C" program to control an HP unit, defined as having an HPIB interface. Mike

-----Original Message----- From: Omar Vega [SMTP:omar@techsource.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 10:36 AM To: TechToolsList@flippers.com Subject: Re: What is a K17-59994A HPIB INTERFACE UNIT? What does it do?

You would still need the HPIB interface card. I know that ISA GPIB ones run about 3-400 new. I don't know about HPIB cards or if they are interoperable. Here at work we use GPIB for diagnostic and QA on boards before they go out (hooked up to a DSO). You can write your own routines in C to control the device and collect data.

Omar

-----Original Message----- From: FBowen@checkfree.com <FBowen@checkfree.com> To: TechToolsList@flippers.com <TechToolsList@flippers.com> Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 10:23 AM Subject: RE: What is a K17-59994A HPIB INTERFACE UNIT? What does it do?

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Yes, thanks. So the HPIB allows communication with and between HP

devices

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of the same era? So I could drive and read info off my 5004A with a pc or something like that?

Ranger Mike <mike_ranger@dofasco.ca> on 09/12/2000 09:48:43 AM

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Subject: RE: What is a K17-59994A HPIB INTERFACE UNIT? What does it do?

HPIB was the fore runner to GPIB. HP developed the protocol for instrumentation communication, which became an IEEE standard and GPIB was the generic version.

GPIB stands for general purpose interface bus. It is used typically to hook more than one instrument/printer/PC together for control and data transfer. My 4th year thesis dealt with Pc communication to an HP data aquisition box over this bus/protocol configuration. I believe I used a general intruments GPIB card for the PC.

Does that help? Mike

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