Agilent also now has a USB to GPIB converter. Of course it's several hundred dollars also, and uses the Agilent I/O libraries. Not sure, but I think that it only supports Windoze. I'll check with some of my buddies that survived to see it that's the case.
Daun -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Van Baak Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 10:43 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Re: Accuracy of a sound card > I know.... :-( I checked the NI prices and for such a card they want a > couple hundreds Euros or more... > I am wondering... I know of the existence of USB <=> RS232 adaptors. May > be someone sells also USB <=> GPIB converters ? Nobody knows ? > > 73 Alberto I2PHD Alberto, I do almost all my logging with RS-232. It has the advantage that it's OS-independent; i.e., it requires no device drivers (since almost any OS supports RS-232 out-of-the-box). You can find cheap, surplus RS232-GPIB converters which will work well on a HP 5328A. To get more serial ports on a PC I use 4- or 8-way USB-serial converters. Again these can be found surplus for next to nothing. My favorite are those by Edgeport. /tvb _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts