John,
The display section is more that the CRT circuits; it's also the IF section. Along with the HPIB you'd need to capture the IF signals and do the processing in software. As you said, probably hellish to do, but an interesting project to think about!
I remember some of the ATE from decades ago in the USAF and yes, often the display was done away with. When it came to the metrology lab we had display sections available so we could do the calibration at first, and later I think the labs got ATE capability. I'm not sure how the developers did their magic but I suspect it was a similar method.?
Steve
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On Oct 16, 2015, at 9:09 AM, John Griessen
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On 10/15/2015 04:48 PM, sgm460122@... [hp_agilent_equipment] wrote:
> You might look into a TFT display replacement.
OK. I don't have an 8566B or a display for it. The question was, Does anyone use
the GPIB port to get SA sweeps and is it practical, or is there much other settings info
that would be missing and make it hellish to do?
I just read that some ATE users didn't buy the display. Did those ATE programmers
always have one with the display to develop on?
John
