[comp.sys.hp] Data Acquisition from GC

purdy@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Irene Purdy) (10/09/90)

  I'm not sure this is the right newsgroup for this, but here goes:

We have:

       H-P Model #       Part

          5890A        Gas Chromatograph
          3396A        Integrator
          7673A        Controller
          9114B        Disk Drive

as our GC Analysis system.  The disk drive writes in a non-DOS-readable
format.  I want to take the data from the integrator to a PC, and analyze it
there.  Does anyone know anything about this?  If this isn't the right news-
group (which I suspect, but don't know where else to turn), please mail me
the name of an appropriate newsgroup.  comp.hp.data.acquisition  would be 
nice, but it doesn't seem to exist.

Irene Purdy

purdy@image.soe.clarkson.edu
purdy@sun.soe.clarkson.edu

steve-t@hpfcso.HP.COM (Steve Taylor) (10/10/90)

// purdy@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Irene Purdy) // writes:
} We have:  H-P Model #       Part
}           5890A        Gas Chromatograph
}           3396A        Integrator
}           7673A        Controller
}           9114B        Disk Drive
}.  The disk drive writes in a non-DOS-readable format. I want to take
} the data ... to a PC, and analyze it there.  Does anyone know anything
} about this?  
----------
	I'm not familiar with this particular hardware setup, but many
HP instruments write files using LIF (Logical Interchange Format), which
was the original file system for the HP BASIC and Pascal Workstations.
	If you can verify that that's what it's writing, HP and various
third-parties offer packages that read/write LIF on PCs.  Contact your HP
sales rep. and/or check the ads. in Workstation magazine.
						Regards, Steve taylor

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