[time-nuts] Could someone please recommend GPIB card

[Tijd Dingen]

> Would it be possible to fake an interface with a parallel port and bit banging?

That is certainly possibly, since it is precisely what I use. It's an old printer cable where I adjusted the wiring to the GPIB connector. For the rest it's all done with parport bitbanging under linux using /dev/port. I vaguely recall that I had all the GPIB connectors except for 1, which was no problem for my needs.
 
> Possibly an Arduino?

Were I to DIY it again now, I would indeed look into using an arduino + ethernet shield for the task. Or maybe just buy it on ebay if it's cheap enough. Or maybe a DIY pcb with an ENC424J600 + fpga/microcontroller, so it all fits nicely into the connector.

Then again, something like this should be commodity enough not to have to waste too much DIY time on it.

regards,
Fred

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