[time-nuts] HP-IB to USB

[Dave]

I had the same issue with the softmark board about 18 months ago. They did
respond to my enquiries and sent me another board which repeated the problem

If the (more modern) equipment accepts requests like "?FREQ" and sends the
answer straight back it works fine. If the equipment requires lines  to be
set by the controller and in response another line is set by the equipment
to say the answer is ready; forget using the softmark

My softmark has been relegated to driving a more modern DMM

Dave

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:35:08 +1000
From: "Nic McLean" <mcleann at bigpond.com>
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] HP-IB to USB
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I bought a softmark HP-IB to USB adaptor and it doesn't work with many of my
HP pieces of test equipment. A complaint to softmark brought very little
help. I even offered to lend them a piece of equipment so that they could
test their product but they didn't accept.