[time-nuts] OT Systron-Donner Basic

[Alan Melia]

the problem is trying to guess the syntax....I was thinking of somethings
like.....

Set Style ##.###   // or may be just Style ##.###  try this  "##.###" as
well.
Print using style, a,b,c

It may be possible to define a number of styles, then it might be......
style 1; ##.###
style 2; #####.#
print using 1; a, b:
print using 2; c

Once again try the ### in inverted commas.

I seem to recollect a similar syntax somewhere but I dont recognise the
reserved word STYLE either  you can obviously play games with the commas,
colons and semi-colons to see what works. the print statements you have
discovered will give a lead to that. Wrong synatx on an "immediate" command
(at the prompt) should show an error straight away. If you can find one
manual for any programmable instrument from S-D you will probably find an
example that will show most of the command syntax.  Think of the parsing and
what chars are needed as delimiters to make this easy for the processor.

I cant help there I have no S-D equipment. but there must be some around
with manuals :-))

Alan G3NYK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EB4APL" <eb4apl at cembreros.jazztel.es>
To: <time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 9:13 PM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OT Systron-Donner Basic


Alan,

It doesn't work, neither (####.#), "#####.#" and a lot of other
combinations that I already tried.
I was able to get the other commands syntax even the non "standard
basic" ones even with several parameters, but this one is very resilient
to all my efforts after diving in old Basic, Fortran, Algol, etc.
manuals but never found a STYLE statement.    I always get  ILLEGAL
STYLE error and no other cues.

Thank you anyway, I appreciate all efforts.
Ignacio EB4APL


El 20/03/2011 18:12, Alan Melia wrote:
> 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"
> <time-nuts at febo.com>
> 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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