RE: Corporate PC purchases for factory test, your experiences please

2004-05-17 Thread Boyd, David
All, Thanks for the many replies. Just to summarize and respond: 1. I didn't mean to give the impression that I'm anti-d'Hell. Pretty much every test station I've had responsibility for in the past 5+ years here was built around one of their desktop or small tower configurations. With few exc

Corporate PC purchases for factory test, your experiences please

2004-05-13 Thread Boyd, David
All, This may really be a Windows-only question, but I can believe there are establishments that have standardized on Macs for factory use. Recently I was required by our IT department to 'upgrade' a couple of networked factory test PCs (still running LV5.1 apps under Windows 95!) to Windows 2000

Serial VISA UART-related errors

2004-04-13 Thread Boyd, David
All, As long as I'm composing email to the list, here's a question for the group (and maybe Dan M is listening?) I had occasion to replace a couple of PCs on the factory floor which continue to run a LV5.1-developed application. The app uses serial VISA on one of the PC's COM ports and on two RS

Re:Regional settings date format

2004-04-13 Thread Boyd, David
John, I'm reluctant to share this only because I was never really sure it was effective, but here goes: I had the same sorts of issues with the SQL Toolkit from NI (version 3). Since date/time values out of the DB are necessarily converted to string along the way, you're at the mercy of the user'

re: LabVIEW 7 Numeric Display precision - or Please Kill me now!

2004-03-21 Thread Boyd, David
Jack, Well, please don't kill ME for suggesting it, but you may get some relief by adding: UseDefaultNumDisplayFormat=False to your preferences file. Having to do this ONCE for each LV installation where you work can't be as bad as getting carpal-tunnel from option-clicking and changing the for

AT-AO-10 replacement (was:ISA to PCI)

2004-01-07 Thread Boyd, David
Kalyan, I'll second the other replies' advice: don't try to come up with an adapter for using the AO-10. We had built several test systems using this board, and when ISA slots became scarce on desktop PCs, we started buying the PCI-6713. Where we needed to support an existing test system (which