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Old'ish vs New'ish test equipment
AVGresponding:
--- Quote from: Bud on February 05, 2023, 03:27:49 pm ---
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on February 05, 2023, 09:51:19 am --- GPIB and variants are still well supported, and those don't try to phone home when you plug them into your network...
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Keysight I/O Libraries do.
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Yes but that's the Keyshite software on the PC, not the device itself. If you use generic GPIB software, that doesn't happen.
Finderbinder:
--- Quote from: bdunham7 on February 05, 2023, 03:59:15 pm ---Can you be specific, as in examples? Floppies have faded for sure, but I have "older" equipment that uses things like GPIB, RS232 and CF cards.
As a bonus, some of that old equipment is easier and faster to operate--2 second boot times and 1 button push for any function, things like that.
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Ok, CF is acceptable. I didn't deal with GPIB so far so can't comment, maybe you are right. BTW are GPIB and HPIB compatible or are they separate standards?
As other person mentioned, there were hi end units based on PC (internally). Surely they would be appealing devices if not obsolete PC part. Or if PC part would be upgradeable ::) Looks like an easy task (as with most PSs) but... :horse: old horse refuses to run :-DD
james_s:
Floppy disks still work fine, I use them with my scopes and logic analyzer, I have a USB floppy drive to transfer the data to a PC.
I never liked PC based test gear in the first place but you can still use it the same as always, running the original OS and software that it came with.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: Finderbinder on February 05, 2023, 09:05:45 pm ---Ok, CF is acceptable. I didn't deal with GPIB so far so can't comment, maybe you are right. BTW are GPIB and HPIB compatible or are they separate standards?
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HPIB = Hewlett Packard Interface Bus.
That was so successful other manufacturers adopted it and it became an IEEE standard, number 488, often referred to as the General Purpose Interface Bus. To put it simplistically, it is the PHY and MAC and IP layers.
Effectively GPIB = HPIB = IEEE488.
On top of that is SCPI, a set of commands for getting instruments to do something.
FFI, use google.
bdunham7:
--- Quote from: james_s on February 05, 2023, 09:10:14 pm ---Floppy disks still work fine, I use them with my scopes and logic analyzer, I have a USB floppy drive to transfer the data to a PC.
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Very often the drives no longer work. Even my USB floppy drive has failed, the only one I have is a MAC one. And 1.44MB is pretty limiting...
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