HPIB/IEEE 488

[Don Kossman]

In article <299 at edison.UUCP> don at seila.UUCP (that's me) writes:
>we need to connect an HP line printer with an HPIB (IEEE 488) interface
>to a microvax running ULTRIX 3.1.  We've found a couple of RS232 -> HPIB
>converter boxes from companies like Black Box Corp, but these seem to
>run > 500$.
>2) is there an HPIB card for the QBUS at a reasonable price
>3) is there an ULTRIX driver or does it emulate a DEC device...

Thanks to those who've followed up or mailed...

Turns out that DEC makes an HPIB card called the IEQ11-AD, which i can
buy second hand from various sources for (i think) around 1k$.  This 
makes sense if we use it for more than a single HPIB device, since,
as noted above, serial->HPIB converter boxes seem to address a single
device and this card will in addition provide a separate DMA path.

Naturally, the only device drivers mentioned in the catalog are for
VMS...  so, repeating question 3 -

has anyone seen an ULTRIX device driver for this beast?  can't find
anything in section 4 of my man pages, and don't want to write one...

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