$17,800 the good days :-) Did the user i/f to the HPIB ever get published ?
-pete On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Rick Karlquist <[email protected]> wrote: > I designed the memory board for that, among other things, and was > the project manager for a while. It seemed pretty daring to use > DRAM instead of SRAM, and 64k DRAM's at that. When we started, > 4k DRAM's were mainstream, and 16k DRAM's were the next big thing. > By the time we got into production, 256k DRAM's were ubiquitous at $2. > > It was a two box product. The digitizer proper and a "top box" > containing a display. There was a "private" HPIB between the > top and bottom boxes, as well as a "public" HPIB on the top box. > Due to pressure from customers, we eventually allowed them to > connect to the "private" HPIB connector on the bottom box > and not use the top box at all. The top box had a 9836 computer > inside of it running the Pascal operating system. Kind of like > newer instruments that have a Windows computer in them. Windows, > of course, didn't exist at the time, and even MS-DOS was barely > in existence. At that time, I would say the 9836 ran circles > around any PC. > > It had an "adaptive sample rate" feature that seemed like a good > idea at the time, but turned out to be of limited usefulness. > > > BTW, the sample rate is 4 MHz. I don't know what you mean by > a 3 MHz sweep rate. Obviously, this wouldn't make sense. > > You can, of course, now get 12 bit digitizer PCI cards for your > PC. > > Rick Karlquist N6RK > > > Jerome Peters wrote: >> Just curious about peoples experiences/thoughts about the HP5183A Waveform >> Recorder. >> It's a 2 channel 12 bit digitizer with 512K word memory, 3MHz max sweep >> rate (no display, HPIB must be used to transfer data). >> The sweep rate if pretty slow for a lot of applications, but the 12bit of >> vertical resolutions is intriguing, and both channels can have >> differential input capability. >> I've seen some recently for ~ $100.00 but have been unable to find a >> manual. >> >> >> - Jerome >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and >> may contain >> confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or >> distribution >> is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the >> sender by >> reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
