2-year thread bump:
Monty, I'm pretty sure you bought the 4041/DDU combo that I'd had a watch on for a while. Nice to see it ended up at a good place if so.
The above said: I have a 4041 with all PD ROMs, RS-232 option and so forth. Been trying to source a keyboard for the thing forever and your solution looks to be a good approach.
I also have a 7854, a few each of TM-5003/5006 and more 5000-series plugins than I can fit into a decent-sized pickup. Also in the inventory are a couple Tandy 102s, a 200 and an RS-232/GPIB interface. I can use the 102/200 as a terminal for the 4041 or I can develop a program to control the instruments via the Tandy computers. When I get them working, a couple Tek 2402As round out the GPIB pile.
So, a question for you and anyone else who has played around in the Tek GPIB world - specifically in the area of test automation:
Does a 4041 handle real-time multi-instrument scenarios well, or are these controllers and related software geared more towards single/instrument automation? And can the average PC-to-GPIB controller effectively manage multi-instrument scenarios? What I'd like to do here is to automate an RF or AF test bench to some degree and use whichever controller that's most suited for the job.
Thanks!
Fred, N8YX
