This reminds me of a similar MSDOS utility that I bought years ago for talking to HPIB plotters via the parallel port. The software came with a cable. At the time, it was much less expensive than buying a GPIB card.
Joe Gray W5JG On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Tom Wimmenhove <[email protected]> wrote: > I just recently got myself a HP 5334B universal counter and wanted to > communicate with it using my PC. I don't have any GPIB hardware but I found > GLExPIB (https://code.google.com/p/glexpib/source/checkout) that uses a > standard parport. > I hacked and modified the library slightly and wrote a simple interactive > command line tool to communicate with the counter. > It's a simple command line tool that has an interactive mode to send > commands and receive measurements. It also includes a wiring diagram for > the (passive) cable drawn by the author of GLExPIB. > > I thought I might share this with you guys because I'm sure there are > people on this list that have the same counter. (It might work with general > GPIB equipment, but I have no way to test it). > > Download link: http://www.tomwimmenhove.com/otherstuff/ > _______________________________________________ > 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.
