I very much doubt that the majority on this list have major govenmental or corporate funding and shop from the new Agilent catalog that just came in the mail.
As a result, I'd guess almost all the commercial test gear in the posession of listers is from 1970 to 2000. That says GPIB and almost nothing else. A very few instruments did use dedicated ISA, LSI-11, or RS-232, but the numbers are tiny. The fact is that with GPIB you can cobble up a system to almost anything from simple to complex very quickly. YMMV, -John =========== > J. Forster wrote: >> ".. more generic interface." ?? >> >> The vast majority of professional test equipment has GPIB. Virtually >> anything else is an "also ran". >> >> FWIW, >> >> -John >> >> > > these days, ethernet and USB are becoming more popular. My own > preference is Ethernet and I long for the day when I can ditch the last > GPIB cable (and the stacking connectors where you always seem to need > the one on the bottom of the stack) Yes, GPIB provides some clever > triggering across the interface, useful for things like sweepers and > vector voltmeters, but I suspect that it's not much used these days.. > rather you wind up sending binary or ascii strings across the interface. > > _______________________________________________ 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.
