--- John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com> wrote:
> At 12:40 PM 8/26/2002 -0400, Jeff Hellige wrote:
> > There's an Amiga 3000 on eBay that purports to have a Zorro-II
> GPIB interface. This is the first time I've heard of one of these. Does
> anyone have one? What was it used for?
>
> As I recalled, and as a quick Google confirmed, ASDG made
> one for a while:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=amiga+gpib
>
> As for what it was used for - who knows. I don't remember
> a particular application.
The nature of GPIB suggests that there _was_ no particular application.
Typically (in the instrument world) have a data collection/logger
package and you use GPIB to get data into your application, or, very
commonly, especially 10+ years ago, you rolled your own.
I don't think anyone ever shipped a GPIB interface that did not
come with programming support for BASIC or whatever was the
predominant end-user language on the system. Not all users of
GPIB interfaces and instruments also purchased out-of-the-box
applications.
Given the modern Windoze era we are in, I'm certain that there _are_
ready-to-use data logger/analyzer software packages available from
the vendors of said GPIB interfaces, but I personally have had no
experience with them, only home-grown apps.
-ethan
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Received on Wed Aug 28 2002 - 11:17:00 BST