No, it's not there.? There are newer versions though so I may update while I'm in there.? I don't need any of the MATE or CIIL compatibility as I'll never use that.
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On 3/29/2019 11:03 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
I'm pretty sure it's not there. I hope it's not too much of a hassle
to read those EPROMs. I think there are very few of these units out
there with that firmware.
-Dave
On 3/29/19 10:52 AM, Peter Gottlieb wrote:
I was thinking of checking the ko4bb site to see if it¡¯s already there but his site has been down today.
Peter
On Mar 29, 2019, at 2:37 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire@...> wrote:
Um, wow...Peter, please archive that firmware!
-Dave
On March 28, 2019 11:08:21 PM "Daun Yeagley" <daun@...> wrote:
Hi Peter
This is digging *way* back in the cobwebs of my mind... CIIL stands
for "Control Intermediate Interface Language", which was part of "MATE",
which was a DoD (Department of Defense) initiative for automated test
back in the '80's meant to standardize programming of instruments.
There was special firmware developed as an option for this in some of
the HP instruments of the time. I never got very involved with it
because at the time I didn't have any DoD customers. It was never very
popular, and shortly died out. (this was also around the time that IEEE
488.2 was introduced and pretty much did what DoD was trying to do with
MATE/CIIL.
Maybe some others here may have a better recollection.
Daun
Daun E. Yeagley II, N8ASB
On 3/28/2019 10:44 PM, Peter Gottlieb wrote:
So it turns out I was thinking of another analyzer, perhaps one I
fixed for a friend. My unit started out as a B, the screen says on
startup:
HP-IB ADRS: 18
8566B-E69 <CIIL> (C) 14.6.85
I'm not sure what the E69 or <CIIL> mean or if I have the most up to
date firmware but the analyzer works just fine so far as I can tell.
Peter
On 3/28/2019 3:50 PM, [email protected] wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 12:35 PM, Peter Gottlieb wrote:
I have the B which was apparently an A upgrade and can open it up
and look
at anything if that is helpful.
Peter
Peter,
If you could look under the front panel and take a photo of the same
area that would be fantastic. I believe the B upgrade kit was
supposed to delete that because the battery type changed and was
moved to one of the new digital logic boards that was part of the
A->B upgrade.
Sean
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
