stodghil@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Paul Stodghill) (01/20/89)
I am a lonely HP IPC user who has been looking for an inexpensive hard-drive for quite a long time (One guy offered me a 14 meg that was 3 years old for $5200. He was serious too). I seem to recall reading somewhere that some hardware was available for the IPC that converted between the HP-IB and SCSI protocals. Does such a monster exist? If so, where can I get it? Also, anyone who has experience with this sort of thing, I would love to hear from you. Thank you much, Paul
martin@hpccc.HP.COM (Sam Martin) (01/24/89)
> I am a lonely HP IPC user who has been looking for an inexpensive > hard-drive for quite a long time (One guy offered me a 14 meg that > was 3 years old for $5200. He was serious too). I seem to recall > reading somewhere that some hardware was available for the IPC that > converted between the HP-IB and SCSI protocals. > > Does such a monster exist? If so, where can I get it? Also, anyone > who has experience with this sort of thing, I would love to hear > from you. You may get some great results by calling the HP Customer Information Center at 1-800-752-0900. They are supposed to answer all of these questions and do a great job of it (I use them all the time). Sam
mbk@hpsemc.HP.COM (Miles Kehoe) (02/07/89)
Sadly I think the Customer Info Center will help only on HP products. The company called 'Black Box' makes a 'IEEE 488 to anything' box (well, several of them.. one to SCSI, one to Parallel, etc) and you might check there. The other thing, I think, would be to post a 'wanted' note in some of the HP groups here - comp.sys.hp, etc. See if any employees want to sell of their disk but make sure you get a bargain price. I'd say a 15M 9133 should go for about $750 or less. After all, it is basically a Seagate drive in an HP case.... mbk
gvg@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Greg Goebel) (02/14/89)
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Greg Goebel
to: Paul Stodghill
date: Mon Feb 13 10:57:38 PST 1989
Sir:
I am about the last person in HP whose formal duties include the IPC (I'm
a support person). An SCSI interface is available for the Integral PC,
through SEJUS corporation in the Portland (OR) area. Call:
(503) 747-9332
We don't provide any guarantees or assurances for SEJUS, but we worked
closely with the owner, Joe Wilhelm, and I have a lot of respect for the
guy.
Regards -- gvg