I had the same issue with the softmark board about 18 months ago. They did respond to my enquiries and sent me another board which repeated the problem
If the (more modern) equipment accepts requests like "?FREQ" and sends the answer straight back it works fine. If the equipment requires lines to be set by the controller and in response another line is set by the equipment to say the answer is ready; forget using the softmark My softmark has been relegated to driving a more modern DMM Dave Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:35:08 +1000 From: "Nic McLean" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] HP-IB to USB To: "'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <cb54706ff25b419797e6f2efca4d9...@pc755913417801> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I bought a softmark HP-IB to USB adaptor and it doesn't work with many of my HP pieces of test equipment. A complaint to softmark brought very little help. I even offered to lend them a piece of equipment so that they could test their product but they didn't accept. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
