Hi Daun,
Lacking the option I did ask the question how to enable or install it.
I think it would be a nice way of doing some things, knowing from
previous experience, and in particular since it seems like it also can
act as a GPIB controller, which is useful when interacting with other
instruments.
Cheers,
Magnus
On 02/29/2016 01:11 AM, Daun Yeagley wrote:
Hi Magnus
My memory is a bit faded on this, but the Instrument Basic on the 894xx is pretty useful, and I'd
recommend making use of it. Instrument Basic is a subset of "Rocky Mountain Basic" which
was a very useful programming language, especially for instrument control. "Back in the
day", I did some programs for customers on the analyzers. Another notable example was a
program that was written for performance proofs for ATSC (US digital TV standard) by an engineer at
Zenith. It proved quite popular with TV engineers because it pretty much automated the setup of
the analyzer for these tests.
I don't know if I've still got any programming examples any more.... again,
that was a long time ago now!
I also don't remember how difficult it is to add the option to an existing
analyzer. Does your analyzer(s) have the option?
Daun
Daun E. Yeagley, II, N8ASB
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Subject: [time-nuts] Instrument BASIC
Fellow time-nuts,
This is a little off the normal time-stuff, but I wonder if people just happens
to have some suitable input to give.
I have a couple of HP89410A/89441A and would like to see if it would be nice to
see what could be done using the instrument BASIC. How would I be able to
enable or install it?
Now, don't even bother to write comments about how you can do better using
software control from a PC with this and that tool, this is explicitly not part
of the question.
Cheers,
Magnus
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