Gregg,
> For example, what about the game card ports? Can the
> original peek poke library support them?
Yup.
> I have here, a GPIB card that was originally created
> for the IBM PC/AT
Weird! I would think it *is* an original HPIB card, but should be so marked
if it is. You should be able to tell if you put it on a "fast" bus and it
barfs. Can't remember what the AT ran I/O at. Was it 12MHz or 8MHz? Anyway,
I specifically remember problems with these cards when put on a fast bus.
Alternatively if the thing has any ROM on it you can read that & get all
kinds of insight. There used to be something called romscan.exe that made
quick work of it. QEMM also could do the same thing. If I remember
correctly, even the MS utility could do it. Can't remember the name though.
Was it sysinfo? If all else fails, get _Inside The IBM PC_ by Peter Norton
circa 1983. There's a GWBASIC program published in there that will do it.
-SHAWN-
P.S. - just found it. It's called MSD (Microsoft Diagnostics) and it's a
riot! Run it on NT and get ready to bust a stitch laughing. Choose
Utilities->Memory Browser, select ROM and hit Enter.
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> For example, what about the game card ports? Can the
> original peek poke library support them?
Yup.
> I have here, a GPIB card that was originally created
> for the IBM PC/AT
Weird! I would think it *is* an original HPIB card, but should be so marked
if it is. You should be able to tell if you put it on a "fast" bus and it
barfs. Can't remember what the AT ran I/O at. Was it 12MHz or 8MHz? Anyway,
I specifically remember problems with these cards when put on a fast bus.
Alternatively if the thing has any ROM on it you can read that & get all
kinds of insight. There used to be something called romscan.exe that made
quick work of it. QEMM also could do the same thing. If I remember
correctly, even the MS utility could do it. Can't remember the name though.
Was it sysinfo? If all else fails, get _Inside The IBM PC_ by Peter Norton
circa 1983. There's a GWBASIC program published in there that will do it.
-SHAWN-
P.S. - just found it. It's called MSD (Microsoft Diagnostics) and it's a
riot! Run it on NT and get ready to bust a stitch laughing. Choose
Utilities->Memory Browser, select ROM and hit Enter.
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I'd like to thank everyone for the remarkable discussion on the
parallel port. It's provided much insight into a collection of
problems here. For example, what about the game card ports? Can the
original peek poke library support them? For that matter has someone
created a library, (External DLL library that is.), for that? I
vaguely remember something about it, over a year ago, but I no longer
have the software that the school created.
And here is a decidedly strange question. I have here, a GPIB card
that was originally created for the IBM PC/AT, and was so designated
by them, can anyone shed light as to whether or not, it was built by
them, or even the original HPIB card described on the ftp site for
Agilent, is the same card? The reason behind that one, is that I have
a customer who's still using one of them, in a semi-production
environment, and needs support for the thing. IBM won't advise one way
or the other. In fact, I contacted them about the card, about five or
more years ago, not even a good response.
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