Re: A/D board recomendation?

[Bob Muir <muirrob@hamlet.uncg.edu>]

On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, John D. Sample wrote:

> At 10:42 AM on 4/15/97, <phys-l@mailer.uwf.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone recomend an A/D board with the following capabilities:
> > Thanks
> > kyle
>
> Depending on how much arms and legs cost up north, you might want to look
> at National Instruments products.  They have a Lab-NB board for $700-800
> which far exceeds your requirements and makes many other things possible
> too.  They require NuBUS machines.  They come with some kind of programming
> language (NIDAQ?) but I've never used it.  But a real bargain would be the
> student version of LabVIEW which is made to control these cards.
>
> If I remember correctly they can be reached at 1-800-IEEE-488 or 1-800-433-3488.
>
> I have no affiliation with them, I just use their stuff in my Physics Lab
> courses.
>
> Chip

Just a word of support for LabVIEW and National Instruments.  I have not
used it with Macs, but I am using it with MSWIN (486s and pentiums) with
the LAB-PC interface card.  Even with the educational discount the LAB-PC
card is a little more that the above price, BUT it works well AND I (and
my students) are extremely pleased with LabVIEW.  It is 99% graphical --
no traditional code to write!  National Instruments has included so much
pre-written sub-vis (i.e., subroutines) that it is very easy to construct
very sophisticated programs (virtual instruments, i.e., vis).  I have
found the support staff to be very easy to work with, very knowledgable
and very responsive. 

I recommend that readers explore their educational support and discounts.

bob

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