alt Hacker NewsI cut my teeth on IEE-488. I didn’t realize that it was still a thing.
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schobi • today at 12:13 PM
Linux mainline kernel just had support for GPIB added. https://hackaday.com/2025/12/16/after-decades-linux-finally-...
I cut my teeth on IEE-488. I didn’t realize that it was still a thing.
Linux mainline kernel just had support for GPIB added. https://hackaday.com/2025/12/16/after-decades-linux-finally-...
There’s a fairly large second-hand market for old electronics test equipment. A lot of that stuff only had GPIB ports, even well into the 90s. Cheap Chinese entrants (Rigol, Siglent, etc.) only within the last decade started making an impact