I totally agree with you, and that is why an open-source solution like the Open Bench Logic sniffer is great. There is always someone (sometimes you) who can fix it.
On 10/8/14 8:12 PM, emc-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 09:06:40 -0700 > From: "John Dammeyer"<jo...@autoartisans.com> > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Oscilloscope + logic analyzer (PC based) > To: "'Enhanced Machine Controller \(EMC\)'" > <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID:<08f601cfe311$d9095390$8b1bfab0$@autoartisans.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I own an EPROM/PAL programmer that runs off the parallel port. At the time > to get the PAL feature I paid a significant amount for it. The shift from > Windows 3.11 to Win95 orphaned the product two months after I bought it. I > kept a WIN3.11 system around for a few years but doesn't matter anymore > because I don't use EPROMs nor those PALs. > > I also own a 32 channel logic analyzer pod that runs off the parallel port. > Last time I was using it was WIN-98 or maybe XP. I wrote custom DLL code for > it to do CAN bus decoding from the bit stream back in 2001. I haven't tried > it with WIN-7. Don't know if it will work. > > None of these products were supported under Linux. > > Doesn't matter as much as I now have a stand alone 4 channel Tek Scope with > a 16 channel logic analyzer that also does SPI/IIC/CAN bus decoding. > > Although companies are full of the wildest dreams of staying in business > forever (or in the case of AlibreCAM being purchased generating a ROI) the > truth is supporting old hardware is really expensive. We live in a throw > away world and that logic analyzer/scope that works today on WIN-7 may not > work on WIN-9. And when your WIN-7 hardware fails the license for that > scope module which was keyed to the CPU no longer works and the company that > sold the scope no longer supplies upgrades for WIN 9.00100. > > The problem is test equipment sometimes sits there for months not being > needed. It's like the bandsaw in the shop. If you don't build anything for > a few months that requires that tool it sits idle in the corner with a > dusting of sawdust on it. But when you need it you walk over to it and turn > it on and it works. I do that with my Delta Saw built in 1935. > > I can also do that with my 30MHz Gould Scope that I bought in 1978 although > I suspect I'd probably have to replace some filter capacitors. Not a > problem since the user manual came with Service Information and Schematics. > > Just an observation that these little pocket scopes and logic analyzers have > a very short lifetime. > > RantMode := OFF; > John Dammeyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
