[time-nuts] GPIB Card

[Chris Kuethe]

You mean like this card?
http://www.maxipub.com/electro/photos/dv488.jpg

it could be a Metrabyte DV-488 ... or maybe an MBC-488



On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Brian Kirby <kirbybq at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> A friend has given me a GPIB card and neither of us know who made it.
>
> First its a standard ISA card and it has a GPIB female plug on the rear.
>    No manufacturer or model number but there is a symbol of a tree on
> the rear (maybe paradise?) and beside is 6323706 rev A 667523.  Made in
> the USA and another number in a corner is 94V-0.
>
> On the chip side of the board it appears to have a NEC controller marked
> big letters D7210C little letters 8308PB.  An assembly number of 6323705
> rev A.  Has another 20 other 74LSxx  glue logic ICs...Card is about 4.5
> inches by 4.25 inches.
>
> Has 5 set of berg pins, one set is A13, A14, next set is 2FX and IE,
> next set is computer IRQs 2 thru 7, then a DRQ1-DAC1-DRQ3-DAC3, then
> last set of DAC2 and DRO2.
>
> It had a 1.44 Mb floppy which suscessfully copied, three files;
> config.sys , DV488PC.sys, and LVDT.C
>
> Config.sys shows:
> BREAK=ON
> BUFFERS=20
> FILES=30
> LASTDRIVE=E
> SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM /P /E:256
> DEVICE=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
> DEVICE=C:\VIPARSE.SYS
> INSTALL=C:\DOS\FASTOPEN.EXE C:=(50,25)
> DEVICE=C:\DV488PC.SYS
>
> LVDT.C is "C" code for
> for a program written by  a NASA/MSFC employee for the calibration
> of Linear Displacement trunsducers...
>
> Does anybody in the list have an idea of who made the card ?  I'm
> researching to see if it is still usable....
>
>
> Brian - KD4FM
>
>
>
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