[time-nuts] OT Systron-Donner Basic

Alan Melia alan.melia at btinternet.com
Sun Mar 20 17:12:58 UTC 2011


Hi Ignacio try the "print like" format with ######.##  to define decimal
places etc
Alan G3NYK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EB4APL" <eb4apl at cembreros.jazztel.es>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement"
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Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 4:41 PM
Subject: [time-nuts] OT Systron-Donner Basic


This is clearly OT, but maybe somebody in this list can give me some help.

Recently I bought an old GPIB controller, a Systron-Donner Busser II
model 3522.  As my daughter said it looks like technology coming from
"Lost", but I want it to learn how to do some basic control of my GPIB
instruments before immersing in a more logical solution using a NI card
and a PC.

For starting, I made  simple programs to record OCXO's drift and aging
against my Rb and for studying the charge and discharge of batteries.

This device is a small 6802 based computer that runs a Basic dialect
(Systron-Donner Basic v 2.a) and while the unit came without any
documentation I was able to reverse engineer its command set and other
information.
There is only a command that resist all my efforts so far, the command
STYLE that seems to be a kind of format facility for the PRINT command.
Anybody was exposed in the past to this technology or remember anything
about a Basic command named STYLE?
I can´t find the right syntax for this command.

Thanks in advance.
Ignacio, EB4APL

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