[time-nuts] 53131A or 5370B

[Bernd T-Online]

Hi Tom,

Tom Clark, K3IO wrote:
>    I have been a strong advocate for the 53131/2 counter since I first
>    encountered in in 1993. Most of my applications are for a time-interval
>    counter (TIC) measuring the time interval between an atomic clock and
>    GPS (see my Timing for VLBI papers at [1]http://gpstime.com). The two
>    reasons are
>     1. It is simple and cheap and reliable, especially for the casual
>        user.
>     2. It has a simple RS-232 "printer" interface that is really easy to
>        use. Rick Hambly used the 53131/2 simple interface to make his
>        Tac32Plus (and Multi) software packages into an integrated TIC
>        logging utility 

My question: is there a penalty in timing, if the GPIB bus is used for 
time interval measurement as compared to the RS-232 bus.
This question may sound stupid, as I am do not write the test software 
in our lab by myself, but get it done.

Best regards

Bernd Neubig DK1AG
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