[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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