[rescue] Portable (sparc) GPIB setup

[roosmcd at dds.nl]

 Hello,

 Does anyone have experience with Sbus GPIB cards? I'm being offered a National 
Instruments Sbus GPIB card of unknown revision for a good price. Are these 
things supported by Linux in any way? The card is sold without software and it 
seems NI ask EUR 795 for the drivers :(. 

 It's not as if I need the Sbus version; I just want to have a (semi) portable 
GPIB setup and a Sparc5 is not too big. My Indy with presenter or Thinkpad 
(still looking for AIX for N40 CD) will do better, but the GPIB-adapters for 
those (serial, scsi or ethernet) are a bit above my budget. But if anyone has 
one of those for a reasonable price, please let me know.

 I'm building a portable timing/speed measurement setup. Just two switches and 
a timer/counter to measure the time between the toggling of the first switch 
and the second. Very simple and since the timer has a GPIB port, I'd rather 
program the timer via GPIB and read the results than trust that to an operator 
(I've had some experience with this at work with production automatisation :).

  regards,
   Michiel