[time-nuts] FW: HP-5732A operation with no CRT display.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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Lester Veenstra via time-nuts writes:

I assume you mean HP-5372A and not 5732A ?

> I see good H and V sync inputs as well as the ZMod (Video data) into the
> board, bur the drive for the two deflection coils is not what I would
> expect.

The 5372 uses a weird video-format, 19KHz horizontal and 60Hz vertical,
but it might be possible to find a LCD panel which can do that.

There are two bits of video, "half intensity" and "full intensity", so
a color panel would be required.

> However, it occurs to me; Does  anyone have HPIB code that allows use of the
> instrument without the GUI user interface?

I've never quite gotten the hang of HPIB with the HP5372, the HPIB
is very geared towards moving the raw binary data, and not very
much towards "remote front-panel".

You can get a bitmap of the screen using "INTERFACE;PSOURCE,DISPLAY;PRINT",
but it is not particularly fast and comes with gratis PCL escapes, but it
does work.

If you dump the raw measurements, that's precisely what you get, and you will
need to do all the processing, math and plotting yourself.

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