Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!voder!pyramid!nessus!ivucsb!dan From: dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: IEEE-488 Question. Message-ID: <517@ivucsb.UUCP> Date: 2 Feb 89 11:27:13 GMT References: <2030146@hpcilzb.HP.COM> Reply-To: dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell) Organization: The Audio Club at UCSB, Isla Vista, California Lines: 24 In article <2030146@hpcilzb.HP.COM> daves@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Dave Scroggins) writes: |I was just wondering --- |How come the AMIGA, particularly the new ones, do not come with an |IEEE-488 (HPIB) instead of or in addition to the Centronics ports? |Along these same lines, why do most periferals for the AMIGA not come |with this interface option? |If this were used more commonly, then I would not have to get switch boxes, |or change things around so much. |Example -- here at work I have 4 100MB disks all plugged into one port. |Maybe some folks at CBM could comment. |Thanks, |Dave (Just wondering) S. An IEEE-488 interface which plugs into the parallel port of the Amiga and allows up to 15 devices is available from A.D.I. 2425 W. 155th St. Gardena, CA 90249 Write for details. -- Dan Howell <...!apple!comdesign!ivucsb!dan>