IEEE-488Metal Hood - 2mIEEE-488 is a short-range digital communications bus specification. It is also known as HP-IB (Hewlett-Packard Instrument Bus) and GPIB (General Purpose Interface Bus). Commonly used on older systems by Commodore HP and Tektronix. These cables feature a metal hood. Transferring data is not a big deal! Transfer your valuable data with easeConnects quickly via the compatible parallel port