[time-nuts] Prologix GPIB-USB vs. GPIB-LAN
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sun Jul 5 03:02:39 UTC 2009
> Like many of you, over time I've acquired enough test equipment with
> the GPIB interface that I'm wanting to make use of it. I have
> narrowed the choice down to one of the Prologix devices (GPIB-USB or
> GPIB-LAN), but I haven't found much information about the differences
> between the two. Apart from the obvious (price, tether distance from
> the PC), can anyone comment on the pros & cons of the two
I have one of the older USB versions. I'm happy with it. It uses one of the
popular USB to serial chips so it looks like a typical serial port and the
driver should be well debugged. I use it from Linux with no troubles.
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