[Techtoolslist] Fwd: GPIB

[Aidan Grey]

Hello all,
I have a few questions relating to PC interface cards:
1> I have an old dataman omnipro2 programmer which uses a custom ISA card. Has anyone run something like this on a P3 motherboard running at 1Ghz?
- I am currently running it on a 486DX2-66 but it ill only run when I set the BIOS to run in CGA/EGA graphics mode.
2>I was wondering if anybody has any advice when looking for a suitable GPIB controller for this same PC. I intend to use it with my HP54120 18Ghz scope via Agilent VEE. I have never used VEE and never used GPIB.

Many thanks
Steve


Steve:

  There is a lot of information on GPIB on the National Instruments Web site at
www.ni.com.  There is also a GPIB news forum there, with many GPIB experts
offering their advise.

  Unfortunately, I don't have the URL for that forum, but it is echoed on a 
newsgroup.  You might search your news provider for any newsgroup containing
"gpib".

  I would suggest buying an NI ISA GPIB controller for your machine rather than
an HP one.  They are offered regularly on EBay.  The software support for
NI cards seems a little better than for HP right now.

  I assume that the PC in question has only ISA slots.  If not, there are other 
options.

  The problem with you omnipro2 card sounds a little odd.  Is it possible that 
it is memory mapped, and interferes with the VGA memory regions?  Or, is it
using IRQ 9 and causing an IRQ conflict with VGA?


Aidan Grey