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From: reid@psi.ch (Dr Ivan D Reid, muSR Facility, PSI)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: PET GPIB-serial interface box
Date: 8 Dec 1995 10:18 +0200
Organization: Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <8DEC199510184673@psi.ch>
References: <4a3ufq$gg6@nyheter.chalmers.se> <4a7cal$7n1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: psw086.psi.ch
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
In article <4a7cal$7n1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
ard12@eng.cam.ac.uk (A.R. Duell) writes...
>Be careful : The handshake timing requirements of the pet were much more
>sloppy than those of a standard GPIB controller. I've found several pet
>peripherals that will not work on HP machines because of this.
And vice-versa. The PET times out waiting for acknowledgement (about
1 second as I recall), so a long string sent to a HP plotter can time-out
and the next commands be sent before the plotter is ready for them.
Ivan Reid, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH. reid@psi.ch