Sonnet Encore and LC PDS GPIB Card

[CelGen]

Unexpected find at the second hand store.

You can't see it in the picture but it uses the same connector we see on the IIe emulation card.

Now I got GPIB for NuBus and the LC but I know of NOTHING that actually uses these things.

The big ticket $10 item was an Encore G4/1000 for the Powermac G3 Unfortunately it had been badly handled and as such even with straightening all the pins I lost two and so now the accelerator doesn't work. xx(

 

[Unknown_K]

You have the stubs, rip apart a generic G3 zif and solder on the good pins.

 

[CelGen]

The pins I taped to the side of the accelerator. The entire PGA is oddly a surface mount part.

 

[ClassicHasClass]

That's some second-hand store you have.

I have some IEEE-488 Commodore PET-era disk drives which should connect to it (with conversion since it doesn't sound like a standard GPIB connector), but they're for my PETs and I don't think there's a lot of benefit to connecting them to the LC. :lol:

Also, my HP 9000/350 has GPIB to the hard disk and floppies.

 

[CelGen]

GPIB, HP-IB and IEEE-488 are essentially the same thing. Almost all HP gear has it for linking all your lab equipment together. Hell, they used it on their much larger disk pack drives. I have an HP-85 with an HP-IB module the looking at the burn-in was attached to a mass spectrometer however I wouldn't doubt you could make it run a regulated power supply and print data from a logic analyzer.

However that's HP. National Instruments apparently saw a market for the mac but I have NEVER seen one of these cards being used for anything. I have never seven seen any mac software that had an option for using GPIB.

 

[Unknown_K]

Labview for mac used that port.