Kestrel Replacement of HP 1000 A-Series

Host PC Motherboard

Comm cards/ports: Asynch Ethernet

Drives: SCSI, USB, IDE, SATADrives Controllers

ICD/12821 Natl Inst GPIBCS-80/12821*(*also Micro/internal, 9121/2 Floppy)

Drives Container FilesCS-80/12821 Emulation/Filter/DrivesSDIDisk Emulation (RTAGN req’d)

Comms Ports or WRQ/FilterASIC/12005 PC COM PortsDMUX/12040D PC COM PortsOBIO/A400 PC COM Ports

Printer Windows ControllerSerial Comm EmulationsHP-IB GPIB Emulations

Control ImplementedHP-IB BUS Emulation/FilterSDIChar Hi-Speed Char PipeWRQPipe Use LAN to Pipe WRQ

Emulations Available

Planned: MUX/OBIO Serial Communication Ethernet NS/1000 & DS/1000 FILETAPE (all HP tape drives) Printers SCSI Parallel Communications

Additional emulations can be built for the customer by request/purchase.

A Kestrel Software Developer’s Kit is available for programmers to develop custom emulations.

Future Emulations

Strobe ChassisLIC

Legacy 20-Slot Chassis

LIC

PCI Bus

Kestrel Co-Processor or

Monitor and Keyboard Emulate Non-GraphicsVersions of 2600, 264x, 262x, 239x, 700/9x and VT100 Terminals. Graphics options available.

Windows NT4/ Windows 2000/ WinXP

Available Host Software Platforms

KESTREL DLL- Allows the programmer to access Kestrel (HP) memory directly and transfer data from memory locations dynamically to new applications.CHARPIPES - Allow the programmer to pipe data through a serial port or ?? to a new application.

Kestrel Migration Tools

Available Now: All HP-IB/CS80/ICD disk (Legacy or NI GPIB) Any HP SCSI Disk/Tape via legacy 12016 card All other legacy HP 1000 disk drives

Accessible Media

GETDISK creates Container File disk imagesHFCO transfers ASCII & binary files in CI

volumes on disks with FMGR options (future FMGR support)

CLOCK for setting HP1000 time to Host PC’s

Utilities Available

Strobe Data Inc. 3/6/06

firewire

Legacy 14-slot ChassisLIC

or

(plus I/O extenders)

Kestrel Replacement of HP 1000 21MX/2100 Models

PCI Bus

Host PC Motherboard

Comm cards/ports: Asynch Ethernet

Drives: SCSI, USB, IDE, SATA

Hard Drives Windows ControllerICD/12821 Natl Inst GPIBCS-80/12821

Hard Drives Container Files/DrivesMAC/13037 Emulation/DrivesCS-80/12821 Emulation/Filter/Drives

Comms Ports or WRQ/FilterBACI/12996A-C PC COM PortsTTY/12880 PC COM PortsHST/12531 PC COM PortsMUX/12792A-C PC COM Ports (soon)

Printer Windows ControllerSerial Comm EmulationsHP-IB GPIB Emulations

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2608A/26099 Non-Graphics PrinterEmulation Filter

Control ImplementationTBG/12539A-C Clock EmulationPriv Int Fnc/12936 EmulationHP-IB BUS Emulation/FilterSDIChar Hi-Speed Char PipeWRQPipe Use LAN to Pipe WRQ

I/O Emulations Available

Planned: FILETAPE (all HP tape drives) Other Printers Ethernet-based DS/1000 Additional emulations can be built for the customer by request/purchase.

A Kestrel Software Developer’s Kit is available for programmers to develop custom emulations.

Future Emulations

or

Kestrel Co-Processor

Monitor and Keyboard Emulate Non-GraphicsVersions of 2600, 264x, 262x, 239x, 700/9x and VT100 Terminals. Graphics options available.

Windows NT4/ Windows 2000/WinXP

Available Host Software Platforms

KESTREL DLL- Allows the programmer to access Kestrel (HP) memory directly and transfer data from memory locations dynamically to new applications.CHARPIPES - Allow the programmer to pipe data through a serial port or ?? to a new application.

Kestrel Migration Tools

Available Now: All HP-IB/CS80/ICD disk (Legacy or NI GPIB) All HP MAC Disc (+ emulations) via 13037/other I/f All other legacy HP 1000 disk drives

Accessible Media

GETDISK creates Container File disk imagesHFCO transfers ASCII & binary files in CI

volumes on disks with FMGR options (future FMGR support)

CLOCK for setting HP1000 time to Host PC’s

Utilities Available

Strobe Data Inc. 3/6/06

JUMBO 38-Slot Chassis

CIC

firewire COMBO 12-Slot Chassis

CIC

PC PCI Slots

Power Supply