HP82169A usefull in anno 2022?

[KeithB]

(11-02-2022 01:00 AM)Garth Wilson Wrote:  When I attended a seminar on HP-IB controllers, HP was using the 68000, and someone asked why not a faster processor, like a 68030. The answer given was that there wasn't much point in going faster because so much time was taken waiting for readings to come back from the equipment. This is my experience too.

Indeed, when people ask what kind of specs I need for an instrument control computer, I just say: whatever they have on the shelf, anything that is current.