John Miles wrote: > I'll admit I'm kind of surprised at all of the users sticking up for RS-232. > I would've thought Abdul would be safe in abandoning his internal RS-232 > data pathway between the Atmel and FTDI chip. What are some examples of > RS-232 hosts that need to talk to GPIB test equipment? Old/retired laptops > being used as dumb terminals? Legacy DOS apps that don't have any form of > USB support? Both?
My main data-logging machine has six serial ports (2 on the mobo, four more via PCI adapter) and two NI GPIB cards. I also have serial cable strung all around the lab. I can use USB, but a relatively inexpensive serial solution is easier to drop in and offers more flexibility (for example, use a $150 Soekris single board computer as a logging device as well as super-duper time server; it has two serial but no USB). John _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
