Thank you very much. I just bought a NI PCMCIA card and seperately the cable on eBay for a total of $115 to use in a T-20 or T-30 series Thinkpad. They are available for about $100 w/ 500 MB + memory and a 20 GB+ HD.
Having an upper limit on the useful LabVIEW Rev numbers is very useful. I'm basically playing and am not trying to build a high performance ATE system. Best, -John ============== > I found version 8.0 bloated and slow, especially compared to version > 7.1. It also slowed my computer to a crawl, even when it wasn't > running. Version 8.0 was even worse than 7.0. Version 8.2 was a little > bit better. Version 8.6 was usable, however NI dropped support for > older systems, which is what I was supporting at the time. The LabVIEW > Project (which was added in 8.6, I think) made life easier. LabVIEW > 2009 is pretty good. I haven't had a chance to really test LV2010. I'm > working with real-time systems and LV2010 isn't recognizing them yet. > > For quick and easy use of GPIB, LabVIEW can't be beat. It also gives > you easy graphing and saving of data. > > In a separate email to the list you said that you wanted to play with > PCMCIA GPIB on an older Thinkpad. I recommend you use version 7.1 It > will do everything you need without bogging down your computer. For > hobby use, 8.6 doesn't really get you anything and may be too much for > your laptop. I used to run 7.1 on a 1.4 GHz Pentium M laptop, talking > to three Keithley meters and a switch chassis over GPIB without any > performance issues. I also ran the same test systems with 600 MHz > Celeron processors and 256 MB of memory on Win98, Win2000, and NT 3.5 > systems using 7.1. On those slow, memory-short systems, screen updates > were a little slow but I never missed any data. > > Note that none of NI's PCMCIA products work with Vista or Win 7. > > Brent > > On 8/17/2010 8:15 PM, J. Forster wrote: >> I guess "you snooze, you loose". There was just one copy w/o CDs just >> now. >> >> Why don't you like about Rev 8, if I may ask? >> >> Thank you, >> >> -John >> >> ============== >> >>> Three copies of the Version 7.1 Student Edition are available here >>> (found by a froogle search): >>> >>> http://www.textbooks.com/BooksDescription.php?CSID=DW2BW33KOOKBZKOMODUKCACQS&BKN=715789#mplistings >>> >>> >>> I was going to sell my copy until I saw the prices. As a long-time >>> LabVIEW programmer, version 7.1 is my favorite. I really disliked all >>> of the 8.x versions. The 2009 version isn't bad and I only installed >>> the 2010 version today. >>> >>> Brent >>> >>> On 8/16/2010 11:36 PM, J. Forster wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Does anybody have an older version of NI LabView SW they'd like to >>>> sell? >>>> If so, please contact me off list. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> -John >>>> >>>> ============== > > _______________________________________________ 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.
