Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus

Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus was innovated by Hewlett-Packard in the 1970s. A non-proprietary version is now standardized (IEEE-488) as the GPIB. GPIB is intended for instrumentation, but was adopted by Commodore Business Machines to connect disk drives and printers. Various measurement devices and computer peripherals such as printers were meant to 'talk' and 'listen' on this bus; this aided in the automation of measurements.

This should probably be merged and redir'ed to IEEE-488.