[time-nuts] Pendulum CNT91 with TimeLab

[Magnus Danielson]

Hi John,

On 10/09/2013 11:48 PM, John Miles wrote:
> TimeLab will capture and display the *IDN? result as the instrument name,
> but it shouldn't reject the connection if it doesn't get what it expects.
> How is it behaving when it rejects the data?
>
> You've got to wonder what was going through the heads of the designers of
> the various counters that didn't implement talk-only mode.   Of all the
> obvious useful features to leave out... :(  
It was among the features that makes CNT-91 distinguish itself from
CNT-90.  That is at least what the Pendulum Product Manager said when
asked about it.

As far as I know, CNT-91 should have it, while CNT-90 doesn't have it.
Could be that early CNT-91 didn't have it either.

Cheers,
Magnus