Hello there!
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I like to take advantage of everything the internet has to offer before asking questions here. But on this topic, every time I go online to look for information, I get more confused.
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I have a collection of HP equipment, as some of you may know. I would like to command them by GP-IB through a USB adapter (I don't have a tower PC to use a PCI card). A sea of ??doubts assails me.
Most important doubt:?what adapter to buy? eBay is full of counterfeits, and I don't know the consequences of not having an original adapter. I am not looking for professional use, but I would like to do automatic tests, program my own small tests and barely-complex measurements (for example phase noise measurements with my 8566B, register level flatness and frequency stability of an oscillator for several hours or scalar network analysis using coax switches and so).?
There is a library of model programs for this kind of uses? Maybe a library of HP programs like they record on tapes to verify it's own test gear, like the show by CuriousMarc on YouTube with a 8662A and 8568B.
I have no idea how it is programmed or the possibilities of controlling the equipment in this way. My test gear was manufactured between 1979 and 1991, I understand that not all commands work. I also don't know if the disparity in manufacturing years would prevent them from being used together.
Apart from the manual on HP-IB published by Hewlett Packard (which I have not paid much attention to because I don't know if it is too outdated, given that I intend to control the system with a modern PC, with Windows 10)
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I look forward to your recommendations, suggestions on bibliography and other advice.
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Thank you very much in advance
RubenRubio