Too bad they don't support X and an Ethernet port, or alternately a serial terminal port. Not a lot of other options besides a LIF formatted disk and GPIB/HPIB. I know hat some HP gear that supports X and also have a serial port, or support HPIB and have a serial terminal port allow the HPIB commands and data to be sent through the serial port as if it was an HPIB port. I have used this with some of my logic analyzers.
- The analyzer can output in serial. Perhaps capture that in a PC and use a simple BASIC or C program to strip and format the data automatically.
- I don't remember what the data printouts look like but wondering if the printer port could be hooked to a UART and data sent to the PC as serial data. Once at the PC, the data could be converted into a list of text values using a simple program in BASIC or C.? For printing, probably want EPSON mode. This could work if the analyzer does not have a serial printer port.
- I think the printer port can be put in GPIO mode and act like a parallel port. Same idea with a UART as above. Probably need a BASIC program to read the data and push it out the parallel port using the "OUTPUT @Nsomething" command. The BASIC commands are pretty powerful. Don't know if anyone has seriously tried this as it is probably not very obvious.
This has been a problem for a long time and most people end up circling back to using some GPIB adapter and custom GPIB software.
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T. Gerbic
Central California
