On 4/11/20 12:32 PM, Tam Hanna wrote:
a tornado? You mean the aircraft or the wind thing which turns rapidly?
Either way, I wish you good success in cleaning up.
The wind kind. Thanks. We are ok, but there was some building damage
and a couple of days without power. Some friends are coming out to help
pull some troublesome latticework off of the front of the museum
building; it partially broke loose during the storm on Tuesday night.
Bleach didn't work; I had to throw that underwear away. It was days
ago and we are still a bit rattled here.
As for the topic
nazis: usually, I have seen these at the Scopes r Us mailing list. Here,
not so much.? But you, being owner, probably get more flak than I do.
I'm just a moderator, not the owner, but yes, every so often one of
these people who lack either a hobby or a delete key pops up.
Admittedly the problem is much less severe here than on other mailing lists.
As for RMB: I would use Visual Basic and a NI GPIB card. Works out of
the box. Here is an example, which should be easy to follow albeit it is
in Csharp:
No Windows. Seriously man, life is too short for that garbage. But
thanks for the effort.
But either way, we're discussing getting the existing software
running, not general means to access instruments via HPIB. The eventual
goal would be to port the existing software out of RMB and to something
generalized and maintainable (and, forgive me, but moving from one
proprietary language to another is probably not the best idea) and more
accessible. But we must first access, and probably run, the original
software. A lot of it is not available in source form, so we'll
probably end up sniffing HPIB traffic to figure out what it does.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Dave McGuire