Nigel As I mentioned at the cost I see on ebay it doesn't make sense to screw around. However the ole iotech 488 is working perfectly fine and am using it right now to take readings from a HP 436 power meter. I figured that was the easiest way to get started with python and so far that is true. I picked these up at $ sub 20 and maybe $5. Flea market specials. But they work with everything. No funny business. Anyhow its fun after I figure out a bit more on python it will be time to use the 5370 counter and gather real data and then process it. Regards Paul WB8TSL
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 6:23 PM Nigel gm8pzr via time-nuts < [email protected]> wrote: > Oh boy, I'd forgotten these even existed:-) > Somewhere, in a very remote corner of a dark and lonely shelf, I probably > still have lurking a Brainboxes PSI Box, described optimistically as a > "flexible three way interface converting between IEEE488, RS232 and > Centronics Parallel". > Brainboxes was, and still is, a UK company, with a name that perhaps > doesn't hint at modesty but who make some very nice kit, and the PSI > box..... is probably best forgotten:-) > > By the time I bought mine, must be at least 20 years ago, I thought I had > enough experience of RS232 interfacing to be able to cope with just about > anything, but this sure made me think I might be wrong after all:-) > > ISA GPIB cards, PCI GPIB cards, anything and everything has to beat RS232 > to GPIB, but nowadays there's nothing to beat National USB to GPIB modules. > Nigel GM8PZR > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
