[time-nuts] FW: Instrument BASIC

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Mon Feb 29 13:36:22 EST 2016


Joseph,
I had seen that the rocky mountain basic was available at some $680 for one
license. I guess if you really want it you will pay that.
However that will not be me.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Joseph Gray <jgray at zianet.com> wrote:

> All this talk of Instrument BASIC brings up a question. Is the Windows
> version "out there" somewhere? I know you can't buy it any more.
>
> Joe Gray
> W5JG
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Daun Yeagley <daun at yeagley.net> wrote:
> > Hi Magnus
> >
> > My memory is a bit faded on this, but the Instrument Basic on the 894xx
> is pretty useful, and I'd recommend making use of it.  Instrument Basic is
> a subset of "Rocky Mountain Basic" which was a very useful programming
> language, especially for instrument control.  "Back in the day", I did some
> programs for customers on the analyzers.  Another notable example was a
> program that was written for performance proofs for ATSC (US digital TV
> standard) by an engineer at Zenith.  It proved quite popular with TV
> engineers because it pretty much automated the setup of the analyzer for
> these tests.
> > I don't know if I've still got any programming examples any more....
> again, that was a long time ago now!
> > I also don't remember how difficult it is to add the option to an
> existing analyzer.  Does your analyzer(s) have the option?
> >
> > Daun
> >
> > Daun E. Yeagley, II, N8ASB
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Magnus
> Danielson
> > Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2016 11:06 AM
> > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <
> time-nuts at febo.com>
> > Cc: magnus at rubidium.se
> > Subject: [time-nuts] Instrument BASIC
> >
> > Fellow time-nuts,
> >
> > This is a little off the normal time-stuff, but I wonder if people just
> happens to have some suitable input to give.
> >
> > I have a couple of HP89410A/89441A and would like to see if it would be
> nice to see what could be done using the instrument BASIC. How would I be
> able to enable or install it?
> >
> > Now, don't even bother to write comments about how you can do better
> using software control from a PC with this and that tool, this is
> explicitly not part of the question.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Magnus
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