On 10/10/11 00:41, Jim Lux wrote:
On 10/9/11 3:36 PM, Paul A. Cianciolo wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for a PCI-GPIB card to use in a machine running windows XP.
After looking on Ebay there are many different options at many different
prices.
I am not sure which would be compatible with my set up.
Currently I have a ACER Laptop, with a NI PCMCIA GPIB card and I was able
to locate the drivers to make it run with the TimeLab, the HP 5730B,
I have a Dell dimension 2400 desktop, which runs other Ham radio
software,
like weak signal DSP, some Seismograph, Dataq data logging and others.
This computer has a spare PCI slot and I would like to move the HPIB
capabilities into this machine, so I only need to run 1 computer.
I've been moving to USB and Ethernet. That whole ISA/EISA/PCI bus thing
is such a pain.
Given USB/Ethernet, Prologix has nice GPIB interfaces. NI and Agilent
also have them. brand new, the latter cost more, but perhaps they show
up used at lower prices.
USB can be a pain if you have several, how do you ensure they pop up
with the same identity? Serial port adapters have that issue. Not aware
that there is a general solution to it. For USB at least there is a scan
order to assist, and USB doesn't hurt as the ISA did.
Cheers,
Magnus
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