Hi Paul,
Wow. That is next level genius.?
I'm reminded of the??project with respect?to the aftermarket display mods you can build around HP test gear.
Well done Paul, thanks for the?info.
I have the?K01-5360A Serial to Parallel Converter (feeding a HP 5050B Digital Recorder with nixie option) so will?look at reading the stream after it enters the?
K01-5360A box.
Many thanks,
Terry.
Terry
Essentially there is a 1 Mb/s serial data bus that feeds the?displays and printer port. I used a SXB processor (No longer available for some time) to decode the stream for the 7 segment display then used two ICM? display drivers ? 7209? Since I had all of the?data I created a rs232 serial stream of the?counter which is useful to me. Never set up an input process. That was some 8 years ago approximately. Have no doubt it can be done. Especially since everything can be programmed by diodes.
Today all of the functions?I did could easily be done with a PIC or Arduino. With the higher speed models available even capturing the 1 Mb/s stream can all be done in the micro. That would be a sweet design. Clean and simple. The biggest pain was wiring all of the?7 segment LEDs together and getting the spacing just right to look good.
Regards
Paul
