[sdiy] PC based oscilloscopes

[Tom Arnold]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 04:50:21PM +0100, Tim Stinchcombe wrote:
> Does anyone have experience of/recommend any particular brand? Anything to
> steer well clear of? Are there any advantages in going for parallel
> port/PCI/USB? Or do I just take pot-luck - 'you pays yer money and takes yer
> choice'? 

Get a scope with a GPIB port on the back, cheap these days,  get a GPIB
card off EvilBay, hunt down software ( I use Labview ).

You dont get stuck with the low bandwidth of a cheap PC scope, and once you
go to the trouble of setting everything up, you'll start going "Hey, that
GPIB frequency counter is cheap..." and it all chains off your PC.

I probably picked up my entire setup for $500 including the Mac I have the
GPIB card in. Yes, I know, I use a mac, but Labview is also out there for
that there Winders thang and the cards are about the same price.

Even 10 year old Labview on a Mac is *VERY* usable.

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