[time-nuts] Where does the VXI E1740A fit in ?

[paul swed]

Indeed as I am slowly learning there is a gap in equipment vintage thats a
black hole.
Late 80s to 2005 approx. This is the point that the various test instruments
went more to a hybrid mix of hardware and software with external software
loads. When you pick up an instrument there are rarely any software disks.
Though on 2 occasions I have been lucky. A pair logic analyzers Tek and HP
obtained less then a week apart, go figure.
Then about 2001 to now and in the future very good/reasonable home brew gear
showed up with essentially open software and using the power of the PC and
modern chips sets.
Its unfortunate that the gap exists because I have seen some great gear at
the MIT flea market and obvious as heck 0 chance to make it operational.
Regards

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>wrote:

> In message <298E3F36-5846-4814-BA22-3E9C520E3B09 at rtty.us>, Bob Camp
> writes:
> >Hi
> >
> >They are very cool devices - when you get them working. Without
> the custom Windows software, they make a nice piece of wall art. A
> lot of them are mated up with non-HP VXI PC's so getting them running
> can take you off in multiple directions. Timing wise, they will do
> all of the standard stuff (AVAR, MTIE, TDEV etc) at 5370(?) type
> resolution.
>
> Is there any register-level programming information for them ?
>
> If so, putting an open source UNIX on the VXI PC should be possible...
>
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