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From: steve-t@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Steve Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: HELP !!!
Message-ID: <9330008@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 91 18:24:25 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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//tonyd@hplsla.HP.COM (Tony DeMartino)// writes:
| I am a Unix beginner who has been asked by someone else to get info
| on how to connect an HP Scanjet Plus to an Apollo 400t. 
| They will be connecting it to the parallel port(duuu) and I think

//krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)// writes:
| that the "parallel" port on machines running Domain/OS (ie. SR10.x)
| is a Centronics port ... a Centronics port that did DMA output, and
| not input. If my memory is not completely fouled I seem to remember that
| you had to buy an HP-UX machine to get an HPIB (ie. GPIB) parallel port.

The Scanjet's parallel connection is a flavor of Centronics, not HPIB.
The Centronics port on the S400 is designed specifically to handle Scanjet
in as well as regular Centronics out.  I know of people in HP who have
Scanjets talking to S400 machines (I'm not one of them, so I don't know
any details), but they're running HP-UX rather than Domain.

						Regards, Steve taylor

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