[time-nuts] Inexpensive Alternative to a 5120A

[jimlux]

On 10/7/16 11:32 AM, Cube Central wrote:
> Thanks Bob, I hope your cold improves, and I thank you for that answer.
>
> As I happen to have a HP 5335A and I think it has the options 10 and 30.  So from there, you are saying that the next step would be a GPIB adapter.  Here be dragons, as I have never used anything with GPIB before.  I am happy to order one today if you (or someone) could point to exactly the one I should get (perhaps an e-bay link?) or are all these pretty much standard?
>


The Prologix is the device to get.. it makes life easy, and there's 
wrappers for multiple languages (I use the python ones)

I happen to use the ethernet one, but I would imagine the USB one also 
works fine. I've had more trouble with non-standard USB devices (e.g. 
not a disk drive, keyboard, mouse, or serial port) on Linux than on 
Windows or Mac OSX - but I don't know what the GPIB-USB looks like. 
Others on the list have probably used it.



http://prologix.biz/


Used/surplus, there's probably NI or HP/Agilent/Keysight USB:GPIB pods 
around too.  If you're a Labview kinda guy, then the NI might the ticket.