Digital command sets and interfaces

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…for communicating with peripherals

Command sets

Disks

Parallel

AMIGO
SS/80
HP-IB
SCSI
IDE / ATA / PATA
ATAPI

Serial

SATA
SAS

Printers

HP-GL
Hewlett Packard Graphics Language
2-letter mnemonic graphics language
HP-GL/2 added support for compressed files and a larger advanced instruction set
More than 50 instructions[1]
HP RTL
Hewlett-Packard Raster Transfer Language
Created for HP DesignJet inkjet plotters[2]

General / Other

GBIB(sp?)

The 9134A/B used the AMIGO command set. The 9134D/H used the SS/80 command set. The 9134XV used the AMIGO command set.

The 9134H could be connected to IBM-compatible PCs using the 88500A HP-IB interface

Interfaces

HP-IB
IEEE-488
Up to 15 devices per interface, each set to an address 0–30 (#21 reserved for desktop computer; #31 indicates device is in ‘listen-only’ mode)
265X terminal
30-pin hooded edge connector
264X terminal
14-pin multipoint connectors (edge-connector style?)
262X terminal
50-pin male connector (Centronics-style)
HP-IL
Hewlett-Packard Interface Loop[3]
for connection between calculators and plotters
two-wire cables; closed-loop system (schematic)


Disks

Parallel

HP-IB
Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus
IEEE Standard 488-1975
SCSI
IDE / ATA / PATA
ATAPI

Serial

SATA
SAS

Human-interface

PC/AT2
Mini-DIN
Honeywell quadrature signaling
(e.g. for ITAC Trackballs)
HP-HIL
Sun keyboard interface
Apple Desktop Bus (ADB)
USB

Printers

bit serial ASCII
110, 150, 300 baud
bit serial IBM correspondence
BCD, or EBCD
operated at 134.5 baud

General-purpose

Parallel

Centronics

Serial

RS-232C
9-pin or 25-pin
RS-422
RS-423
38.4 Kb/s?
EIA RS-423-A

See also

Data Terminals Cabling Manual
HP publication number 02640-90185
35+ cable types

Networking

  • DEC VT320/220/102/52
  • NS/VT
  • LAT
  • SPX/IPX
  • NDIS
  • ODI
  • OLTP
  • X.25
  • V24/V28/V32
  • V.35/4
  • 19.2 kb/s
  • OSI services: MMS, FTAM, X.400
  • TCP, UDP, IP, SLIP
  • ARPA, NFS, BSD sockets API
  • NCS, LM/X, NS
  • IBM 3770 for System 370
  • IEEE 802.5 Token Ring

Modem control signals:

  • Bell: DTR, DCD
  • CCITT: DTR, DCD, DSR, RTS, CTS, RI

Glossary

CSU
Channel Service Unit
DSU
Data Service Unit
DTC
Datacommunications and Terminal Controller
FDDI
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
ISO 9314
FDDI SAS
Single Attached Station
MIO
Modular I/O slot (HP proprietary)
NETIPC
Network Interprocess Communication
NFT
Network File Transfer
SDLC line
Virtual Terminal Access
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