Re: how to connect HP4194A to a printer

carneyke wrote:

Mike,
How you been doing ? Health ??


I'm to the point of trying to figure out who you have to blackmail at
the VA to get abscessed teeth out. I am gathering up the old camping
gear and a couple pairs of small channel lock pliers to crush them, if
the refuse to pull them again. over six years with infections is too
much. Now, all I need is an investigative TV reporter who wants to tape
me trying to remove the teeth myself.


Good advice on finding an older plotter or the "thinkjet" /
"paintjet". The only problem is getting pens / cartridges as HP
obsoleted them. Finding a working plotter / printer from the mid
1980's time frame will be difficult too.

Another option is buy a Centronics to IEEE488 convertor from Black Box
Corp. The convertor would go between the 4194's IEEE bus and the
printers input cable.

Original poster should find out what interface his 960C uses and
contact Black Box Corp with his problem. All this information is close
to 10 years old. I don't know if Black Box makes these devices
anymore.

I used one of their devices to convert IEEE488 bus to RS-232. I was
programming some instruments years ago (HP Basic) and it was easier to
do it that way (versus using the PC's serial port and the IEEE488).

Good Luck, Kevin


I don't know if any of the Commodore 4023 GPIB printers I have still
work, but there are about a dozen in storage.


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prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
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