[time-nuts] OT Systron-Donner Basic

EB4APL eb4apl at cembreros.jazztel.es
Sun Mar 20 16:41:42 UTC 2011


This is clearly OT, but maybe somebody in this list can give me some help.

Recently I bought an old GPIB controller, a Systron-Donner Busser II 
model 3522.  As my daughter said it looks like technology coming from 
"Lost", but I want it to learn how to do some basic control of my GPIB 
instruments before immersing in a more logical solution using a NI card 
and a PC.

For starting, I made  simple programs to record OCXO's drift and aging 
against my Rb and for studying the charge and discharge of batteries.

This device is a small 6802 based computer that runs a Basic dialect 
(Systron-Donner Basic v 2.a) and while the unit came without any 
documentation I was able to reverse engineer its command set and other 
information.
There is only a command that resist all my efforts so far, the command 
STYLE that seems to be a kind of format facility for the PRINT command.  
Anybody was exposed in the past to this technology or remember anything 
about a Basic command named STYLE?
I can´t find the right syntax for this command.

Thanks in advance.
Ignacio, EB4APL




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