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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.periphs
- Subject: Re: Seeking IEEE-488 driver for Unix
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.161957.184@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 16:19:57 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.161655.20881@tropix.uucp> <1992Jul29.171849.2991@keinstr.uucp> <390@carssdf.UUCP>
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
- Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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- In article <390@carssdf.UUCP>, watson@carssdf.UUCP (- Self Empl. Sys.Integrator) writes:
- | WAIT A MINUTE, don't let this thread fall into the email crack! I wana hear
- | this.
- |
- | I have been using a PC2A (I think) from National Instrument, a dead bang copy
- | of the orriginal IBM 488 card described in the PC Tech Ref Manuals. I wrote
- | a 386 Xenix driver for some HP2608A printers. Worked OK, but the board is
- | no good on the faster computers. Now I'm kinda stuck, old driver not UNIX
- | 3.2.4, old board no good either. But I've still got half a dozen of these
- | printers. Oh yes, you need to do secondary addressing for commands, this
- | is not a real simple interface.
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- Our industrial control guys tell me that they got their drivers for
- SCO ODT from National Instruments. For about $200.
-
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise rational people, able to
- understand calculus, compound interest, and the income tax form, can
- continue to believe that poker is a game of chance.
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