[Gasification] gas chromatograph acquired: advice needed

[Harmon Seaver]

Greg Manning wrote:
> Greetings Jim and list members.
> 
> Jim your 5880a needs a "dumb terminal" (CRT and keyboard with no CPU) often,
> this old style technology can be mimic-ed with "hyper terminal" in windows
> or a 3rd party version of software that works the same (Z-modem is an
> example)  (even XP has hyper term).
> 

    At first glance I thought so too, but if you look at the one on ebay
that Jim posted  -
http://cgi.ebay.com/HP-5880A-GC-TERMINAL-GAS-CHROMATOGRAPH_W0QQitemZ220146377200QQihZ012QQcategoryZ48720QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

   you will see that it is far more than a dumb terminal. While you
probably could get a term program on a pc to talk to the 5880a, it would
not really do much in the way of being useful.


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Harmon Seaver