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From: rogere@tekig3.UUCP (Roger Ellingson)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: GPIB bus pollable instrument serial numbers.
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Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 21:44:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 12 21:44:38 1984
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Ignore the impossible for a minute.
Has anyone heard of a GPIB programmable instrument that is capable of spitting its serial number out on the GPIB bus?
Are there advantages to such a feature other than it would free a scientist from manually noting the serial number of the instrument making a measurement?