Didier Juges wrote: > Remember these units don't have uC, so any signal that would normally depend > on some timing must be generated externally, i.e. come from the bus. I > suspect the box might need some signals that other equipment (uC equipped) > may not absolutely require. However, this being a piece of HP equipment, I > am pretty confident that is will strictly obey (and require strict adherence > to) the HPIB specification, even in areas where more recent equipment will > show significant tolerance. > Could be that. > Now that I think of it, I really never cared much for the low level NI > programming. I did some of it way back under DOS, and ever since finding the > BlackBox and more recently the Prologix controllers, I have not looked back. >
I've always used the NI controllers and never had any problems with any micro processor controlled instrument. This is the first item I've ever programmed a device without a micro, and so far it is beating my attempts to program it. > Didier > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
