Communicating with the HP 3421A Data Aquisition/Control Unit

[born2laser]

(07-26-2024 02:07 PM)KeithB Wrote:  As rprosperi says, you really need a computer of some kind for this.

If it has the GPIB interface, you can get a USB-GPIB interface and use a PC to control it.

You could also get a GPIB->HPIL interface - which are very rare.

Would a PIL-Box allow him to communicate with it?

I think a PIL-Box would do the trick for you, not sure if any of the existing software would work as is, but it is stuff you can do on a PC using any of many tools, I personally would use Labview.
Now the next problem, PIL-Boxes are hard to come by nowadays

Juan