[time-nuts] WTB: Older Version of LabView

[J. Forster]

Thank you very much.

I just bought a NI PCMCIA card and seperately the cable on eBay for a
total of $115 to use in a T-20 or T-30 series Thinkpad. They are available
for about $100 w/ 500 MB + memory and a 20 GB+ HD.

Having an upper limit on the useful LabVIEW Rev numbers is very useful.
I'm basically playing and am not trying to build a high performance ATE
system.

Best,

-John

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>   I found version 8.0 bloated and slow, especially compared to version
> 7.1.  It also slowed my computer to a crawl, even when it wasn't
> running.  Version 8.0 was even worse than 7.0.  Version 8.2 was a little
> bit better.  Version 8.6 was usable, however NI dropped support for
> older systems, which is what I was supporting at the time.  The LabVIEW
> Project (which was added in 8.6, I think) made life easier.  LabVIEW
> 2009 is pretty good.  I haven't had a chance to really test LV2010.  I'm
> working with real-time systems and LV2010 isn't recognizing them yet.
>
> For quick and easy use of GPIB, LabVIEW can't be beat.  It also gives
> you easy graphing and saving of data.
>
> In a separate email to the list you said that you wanted to play with
> PCMCIA GPIB on an older Thinkpad.  I recommend you use version 7.1  It
> will do everything you need without bogging down your computer.  For
> hobby use, 8.6 doesn't really get you anything and may be too much for
> your laptop.  I used to run 7.1 on a 1.4 GHz Pentium M laptop, talking
> to three Keithley meters and a switch chassis over GPIB without any
> performance issues.  I also ran the same test systems with 600 MHz
> Celeron processors and 256 MB of memory on Win98, Win2000, and NT 3.5
> systems using 7.1.  On those slow, memory-short systems, screen updates
> were a little slow but I never missed any data.
>
> Note that none of NI's PCMCIA products work with Vista or Win 7.
>
> Brent
>
> On 8/17/2010 8:15 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>> I guess "you snooze, you loose". There was just one copy w/o CDs just
>> now.
>>
>> Why don't you like about Rev 8, if I may ask?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> -John
>>
>> ==============
>>
>>> Three copies of the Version 7.1 Student Edition are available here
>>> (found by a froogle search):
>>>
>>> http://www.textbooks.com/BooksDescription.php?CSID=DW2BW33KOOKBZKOMODUKCACQS&BKN=715789#mplistings
>>>
>>>
>>> I was going to sell my copy until I saw the prices.  As a long-time
>>> LabVIEW programmer, version 7.1 is my favorite.  I really disliked all
>>> of the 8.x versions.  The 2009 version isn't bad and I only installed
>>> the 2010 version today.
>>>
>>> Brent
>>>
>>> On 8/16/2010 11:36 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody have an older version of NI LabView SW they'd like to
>>>> sell?
>>>> If so, please contact me off list.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> -John
>>>>
>>>> ==============
>
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