[time-nuts] HP 5372A vs. 5370A

[Ed Palmer]

My 5372A is firmware version 3127 [12 July 1991] e/w option 040.  Serial 
number prefix is 3301.

Ed

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <539FB2CD-A764-4825-8932-970D4253B9E2 at rtty.us>, Bob Camp writes:
>
>   
>> The  5371 / 5372 are never going to be as popular as the 5370 in
>> terms of people needing support. They just aren't that common.
>>
>> Getting binary dumps into one of the software packages would be
>> very nice. The rest of the stuff is much further down my list.
>> Without a binary dump, you can't do anything that runs over a long
>> period of time. I'm not sure what HP really wanted you to do in
>> that case. They may have planed a PC software package and then not
>>     
> followed through with it.
>
> My guess: The realized that GPIB was to slow for much of that, and
> decided to the that stuff on the VXI bus instead...
>
> But that reminds me:  do we even know how many different software
> versions there were for these beasts ?
>
> Which software versions do people have on their HP537[123]A  ?
>
> My HP5372A is 2947 (08 Dec 1989)
>
>