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well, yesterday was a huge mess but

now that things are a bit calmer: we made Progress at work yesterday! got the tek 370A communicating with labview and got it set up to record some measurements

this was a Major Pain because making a device from the 80s communicate with software from 2020 is not easy

made worse by the fact that the 370A predates SCPI so instead of using the standard commands it has its own idiosyncratic ones

at least it does use gpib
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it's not all bad though! the 370A is a classic machine, built in that time period when things came with actual service manuals and were ultra-reliable. the thing works just as well today as it did 35 years ago, more than you can say for modern devices

real easy to use too. no complicated menus or anything, everything's done by buttons on the front panel
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