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| alex.forencich:
Requiring a PCI slot is rather limiting these days. PCI seems to be going the way of ISA. And there is certainly no way to stick a PCI card in a modern laptop. |
| rx8pilot:
--- Quote from: alex.forencich on February 23, 2015, 09:53:47 pm ---Requiring a PCI slot is rather limiting these days. PCI seems to be going the way of ISA. And there is certainly no way to stick a PCI card in a modern laptop. --- End quote --- The good news is that my bench stays put so a desktop PC with PCI slot is not so bad. I sure like the idea of being able to address the instruments from my design workstation over the network just as easy as sitting at the bench. Ethernet seems nice as long as it is not a pain in the ass. |
| AlfBaz:
I went through the same difficulties as you when I first set up and I was seriously considering an NI PCI card. I ended up going with the more expensive Agilent 82357B USB-GPIB interface namely so that I could set up automation with a laptop if needed. So far I have had no problems connecting to any instrument in my eclectic collection Forum member Bingo600 has managed to get his USB/GPIB device working with a raspberry pi running linux, meaning you can collect data for long periods of time without burning all the power a PC needs |
| iDevice:
--- Quote from: alex.forencich on February 23, 2015, 09:53:47 pm ---Requiring a PCI slot is rather limiting these days. PCI seems to be going the way of ISA. And there is certainly no way to stick a PCI card in a modern laptop. --- End quote --- Sure but we are talking vintage right ? So the PCI way guarantees you that it will work with many old softwares that sometimes even are talking directly to the card, bypassing all the NI bloatware. Granted, in that case it's the same as what is done with a prologix but then you are limited to whatever supports the prologix. And PCI is not so bad when you consider you need an ISA NI card in an old ISA bus PC running DOS to be able to calibrate a TDS5XX series scope for instance, a different challenge... Thats the reason I keep a collection of low speed ancient PC's. Served me numerous times in restorations or recreation of old system disks needing 360k 5"1/4 drives, driven by a old dos alien geometry formatter. Always good idea to keep at least one of those old PC when you do restoration. |
| alex.forencich:
Depends on what you're trying to do. If it's all about the vintage equipment and the vintage control software, then PCI is probably the way to go if that's what the software supports. Personally, I'm more interested in working on modern open source instrument control software, and to that end being able to control things from my laptop is pretty much a requirement. |
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