[time-nuts] HP82335 HPIB Card

[J. Forster]

Not so. I just went through this. Even the older ISA NI GPIB cards will
work on XP with the right drivers.

It may take some looking on the NI site to find the drivers. I took the
easy way out and just called NI. They were very helpful.

-John

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> Many of those older ISA GPIB cards never had Windows NT drivers written
> for
> them, much less 2K/XP.  That's true of National Instruments, and wouldn't
> surprise me if it's true of HP as well.  I'm guessing you'll need to stick
> with Win9x if you need to use that card.  (You don't have to go all the
> way
> back to Win95, as Win98SE will use the same drivers.)
>
> -- john, KE5FX
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com]On
>> Behalf Of Martyn Smith
>> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:43 AM
>> To: time-nuts at febo.com
>> Subject: [time-nuts] HP82335 HPIB Card
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to get a 82335 HPIB card to run on my computer.
>>
>> The card works in an old computer running windows 95, so I know
>> the card is
>> ok.
>>
>> I have a Pentium 3 running windows XP home edition.  This computer has
>> an
>> ISA connector, so the HPIB fits ok.
>>
>> But the computer just doesn't recognize my HPIB card.
>>
>> Can anyone help.
>>
>> It may be that windows XP is too new to run on this computer.
>> The ISA connector is actually on a cage that plugs into a PCI
>> base, so I'm
>> wondering if that's a problem as well.
>>
>> Any advice will be much appreciated.
>>
>> I have just bought win95 on eBay, and I'm going to try that when
>> it arrives.
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> Martyn
>>
>>
>
>
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