Thanks for the advice Aidan, I assumed that the omnipro2 only used a CGA/EGA graphics mode as it is DOS only and pretty out of date but it can handle most proms,pals and gals so I can wait until a decent USB programmer turns up at the right price. I looked into the NI cards and although I have another spare ISA slot on the P3 it has 3 PCI so I may just buy one of them. Thanks again. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aidan Grey" <apgrey@odyssey.on.ca> To: <techtoolslist@flippers.com> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 5:07 AM Subject: [Techtoolslist] Fwd: GPIB
Hello all, I have a few questions relating to PC interface cards: 1> I have an old dataman omnipro2 programmer which uses a custom ISA card. Has anyone run something like this on a P3 motherboard running at 1Ghz? - I am currently running it on a 486DX2-66 but it ill only run when I set the BIOS to run in CGA/EGA graphics mode. 2>I was wondering if anybody has any advice when looking for a suitable GPIB controller for this same PC. I intend to use it with my HP54120 18Ghz scope via Agilent VEE. I have never used VEE and never used GPIB.
Many thanks Steve
Steve:
There is a lot of information on GPIB on the National Instruments Web site at www.ni.com. There is also a GPIB news forum there, with many GPIB experts offering their advise.
Unfortunately, I don't have the URL for that forum, but it is echoed on a newsgroup. You might search your news provider for any newsgroup containing "gpib".
I would suggest buying an NI ISA GPIB controller for your machine rather than an HP one. They are offered regularly on EBay. The software support for NI cards seems a little better than for HP right now.
I assume that the PC in question has only ISA slots. If not, there are other options.
The problem with you omnipro2 card sounds a little odd. Is it possible that it is memory mapped, and interferes with the VGA memory regions? Or, is it using IRQ 9 and causing an IRQ conflict with VGA?
Aidan Grey
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