How ironic. I have a 1640B _without_ the HPIB option board. I've been trying to find
that
board to buy, without any luck so far.
But I _did_ buy this: "HP 01281-90904 1640B OPTION 001 install & service manual
(10281A) (HP-IB)"
Now to try to find it, and see if it's short enough to be an easy scan.
Guy
At 08:36 PM 7/11/2024 +0100, you wrote:
Hi all,
I have a HP 1640B that I'm trying to get to work. However I can't find any
information about it, and while the machine itself it straightforward enough (and I
remember enough from when I was using it in my first dayjob) I can not find anything about
how to use the GPIB interface that it has.
The reason I'm interested is, we've finally managed to add GPIB support to the
PDP2011-MINC fpga implementation, and I'd like to test against a different target than
the relatively modern Philips/Fluke counter I'm now using. And the 1640B is the only
other GPIB instrument I have...
The HP doesn't seem to know the ID? command (that causes an error message on the
screen). It does respond to a newline (the standard is-this-listener-present test that the
MINC code implements), so at least something is working.
Does anyone here have any docs on the HP 1640B? It'd be very helpful at least to know
which GPIB commands are implemented.
thanks in advance!
Sytse