HP-IL
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thumb|HP-41CX connected to thermal printer and digital cassette drive via HP-IL The HP-IL (Hewlett-Packard Interface Loop) was a short-range interconnection bus or network introduced by Hewlett-Packard in the early 1980s. It enabled many devices such as printers, plotters, displays, storage devices (floppy disk drives and tape drives), test equipment, etc. to be connected to programmable calculators such as the HP-41C, HP-71B and HP-75C/D, the Series 80 and HP-110 computers, as well as generic ISA bus based PCs.
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Principles
- Applications
- HP Calculator Applications
- HP-IL to HP-IB interfacing
- Equipment with HP-IL Interface
- Controllers
- Interfaces
- Peripherals
- Test instruments
- Software
- Third-party
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|HP-41CX connected to thermal printer and digital cassette drive via HP-IL The HP-IL (Hewlett-Packard Interface Loop) was a short-range interconnection bus or network introduced by Hewlett-Packard in the early 1980s. It enabled many devices such as printers, plotters, displays, storage devices (floppy disk drives and tape drives), test equipment, etc. to be connected to programmable calculators such as the HP-41C, HP-71B and HP-75C/D, the Series 80 and HP-110 computers, as well as generic ISA bus based PCs.
==Principles==
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