IEEE-488 GPIB 8-Bit ISA Card 01000-60300 NEC Controller PC/AT Instrument Bus

IEEE-488 GPIB 8-Bit ISA Card 01000-60300 NEC Controller PC/AT Instrument Bus

The 01000-60300 is an 8-bit ISA bus IEEE-488 (GPIB / HP-IB) controller card that allows IBM PC, PC/XT, and PC/AT-class computers to communicate with instruments and peripherals connected to an IEEE-488 instrument bus. The card installs into any 8-bit or 16-bit ISA expansion slot and provides a standard 24-pin IEEE-488 D-sub bracket connector for direct instrument hookup. A NEC controller IC drives the interface logic.

Specifications & What's Included

• Part Number: 01000-60300
• Bus Interface: 8-bit ISA (compatible with PC, PC/XT, PC/AT, and any ISA-slot system)
• Interface Standard: IEEE-488 / GPIB / HP-IB
• Bracket Connector: 24-pin IEEE-488 D-sub female connector
• Main Controller IC: NEC 40-pin DIP (large IC, center of PCB)
• Additional ICs: multiple 74-series logic DIPs
• PCB Copyright Date: 1986
• Form Factor: half-length 8-bit ISA card with full-height bracket
• Card only — no driver software, cables, or documentation included

Applications

IEEE-488, also known as GPIB (General Purpose Interface Bus) or HP-IB, is the instrument interconnect standard originally developed by Hewlett-Packard in the late 1960s and formally standardized as IEEE-488 in 1975. It was the dominant standard for connecting laboratory instruments — oscilloscopes, signal generators, multimeters, spectrum analyzers, power supplies, and programmable test equipment — to a controlling computer in automated test and measurement setups. ISA-bus GPIB cards like this one were the standard way to add IEEE-488 capability to IBM PC/XT/AT-class systems throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, before PCI and USB-based GPIB adapters became common. Today these cards are sought by engineers and technicians maintaining or operating legacy IEEE-488 instruments that still require an ISA-bus host controller, or by vintage computing enthusiasts building period-correct instrumentation setups. Compatible instruments include virtually any device bearing an IEEE-488, GPIB, or HP-IB port from that era.