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Hi again.

The BIG advantage of a Prologix adapter (or clone) is that for simple tasks, it will work with anything that recognises it as a "Serial Device", and dumb terminal program.

One with programmable macro's is most useful though, it's amazing what you can do with that sort of program!
Such as? for Windows, or...
CuteCom for Linux.

It is OS agnostic (no custom drivers needed) and can work as a device, as well as a controller.

So you could configure it as a "listen only" device, then you have a crude bus monitor tool, for when you have something weird going on between some other software and instrument.? It won't show you the handshake sequence, but will present you with all the data bytes flying up/down the bus.

Hint, the later devices have some EAROM built in, so you can save it's configuration.? That almost gives you a Plug-n-Play bus monitor if you need, just fire up a simple ASCII terminal emulator, that can show valid representations of the usual ASCII control characters.)

OK, it takes a bit of effort to decipher it, but it's better than nothing, if you've not got a built in diagnostic/analyser tool for your main GPIB interface, such as the National Instrument supplied tools, "Ni IO Trace" etc (used to be called Ni-Spy) that come with their interface software.? I do not know what HPAK supply that is equivalent.

If I were you, I'd hang onto it, as it is still a useful tool in its own right, even if? you usually use one of the big name devices for the main tasks..?? Add a small single board computer (Raspberry Pi, or others) and configure it as a "Device", and you have the beginnings of a custom GPIB device, for "Whatever" needs.

All the best.

Dave KBV.

PS:??? There was a "lot of noise" a while back, about weather or not to add the ability to use Prologix adapters to PyVisa.? I have no idea if that ever happened, but I do remember a lot of people not liking that idea for some reason.