KK7NIL 17 hours ago

Worth noting that GPIB is still very common in labs and present in modern lab equipment that's still in production. Tek's AFG31000 is one example but there's countless more.

Mil/gov customers are still die-hard GPIB users and that's a major sector for T&M sales.

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  • guenthert 14 hours ago

    Indeed. Keysight's top-of-the-line long-scale DMM, the 3458A, was redesigned (chiefly for RoHS compliance) in 2019 and the GPIB bus remains the only means to remote control that instrument.

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    • KK7NIL 12 hours ago

      To be fair, that's a small redesign of a 40 year old design (everything is still through hole, for example).

      The AFG31k is a brand new design from the ground up and it still has GPIB! And it's far from an isolated case, GPIB has a strong network effect, pun intended.

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