All this talk of Instrument BASIC brings up a question. Is the Windows version "out there" somewhere? I know you can't buy it any more.
Joe Gray W5JG On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Daun Yeagley <d...@yeagley.net> wrote: > Hi Magnus > > My memory is a bit faded on this, but the Instrument Basic on the 894xx is > pretty useful, and I'd recommend making use of it. Instrument Basic is a > subset of "Rocky Mountain Basic" which was a very useful programming > language, especially for instrument control. "Back in the day", I did some > programs for customers on the analyzers. Another notable example was a > program that was written for performance proofs for ATSC (US digital TV > standard) by an engineer at Zenith. It proved quite popular with TV > engineers because it pretty much automated the setup of the analyzer for > these tests. > I don't know if I've still got any programming examples any more.... again, > that was a long time ago now! > I also don't remember how difficult it is to add the option to an existing > analyzer. Does your analyzer(s) have the option? > > Daun > > Daun E. Yeagley, II, N8ASB > > > -----Original Message----- > From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Magnus > Danielson > Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2016 11:06 AM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts@febo.com> > Cc: mag...@rubidium.se > Subject: [time-nuts] Instrument BASIC > > Fellow time-nuts, > > This is a little off the normal time-stuff, but I wonder if people just > happens to have some suitable input to give. > > I have a couple of HP89410A/89441A and would like to see if it would be nice > to see what could be done using the instrument BASIC. How would I be able to > enable or install it? > > Now, don't even bother to write comments about how you can do better using > software control from a PC with this and that tool, this is explicitly not > part of the question. > > Cheers, > Magnus > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
