Indeed as I am slowly learning there is a gap in equipment vintage thats a black hole. Late 80s to 2005 approx. This is the point that the various test instruments went more to a hybrid mix of hardware and software with external software loads. When you pick up an instrument there are rarely any software disks. Though on 2 occasions I have been lucky. A pair logic analyzers Tek and HP obtained less then a week apart, go figure. Then about 2001 to now and in the future very good/reasonable home brew gear showed up with essentially open software and using the power of the PC and modern chips sets. Its unfortunate that the gap exists because I have seen some great gear at the MIT flea market and obvious as heck 0 chance to make it operational. Regards
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk>wrote: > In message <298e3f36-5846-4814-ba22-3e9c520e3...@rtty.us>, Bob Camp > writes: > >Hi > > > >They are very cool devices - when you get them working. Without > the custom Windows software, they make a nice piece of wall art. A > lot of them are mated up with non-HP VXI PC's so getting them running > can take you off in multiple directions. Timing wise, they will do > all of the standard stuff (AVAR, MTIE, TDEV etc) at 5370(?) type > resolution. > > Is there any register-level programming information for them ? > > If so, putting an open source UNIX on the VXI PC should be possible... > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
