NeXT
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At the office I use a Protek 506 Digital Multi-Meter and one of the reasons I pulled it from the pile was it has a big honkin' serial port on top so you can view and save data to a computer. Of course I don't have the software. I can find plenty of reviews on the meter, some forum posts on it and even a few youtube videos about it because it is a rather nice meter still but not the software. One review does however go far enough as to update the article regarding what was available on the diskette, provided with the meter:
That link is of course dead, but the wayback machine did scrape the page in 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20040313093255/http://www.hcprotek.com/proddnld.asp?type=sw
The last available copy of the software was supported on Win 3.1 through XP and was a 328k download called "PD506.zip" and of course, that didn't get archived.
There is what seems to be an image of the diskette on the Internet Archive ( https://archive.org/details/protek-506-rs232c-driver-diskette ) that lists as version 2.03 and it's in a .ima disk image format, which at least at my desk I can't seem to readily read.
Does anyone else have a copy of the diskette somewhere?
If you plan to use the 506's serial port, beware of the software. You get a simple application written in Basic and some programming examples, but there's no Windows application to run this meter. Expect to write your own datalogging software. (Eds. note–according to Protek, every Model 506 meter includes a diskette that contains a Windows datalogging application. You can download the Windows application from the company's Web site, http://www.hcprotek.com/ProdDnLd.asp?type=SW.)
That link is of course dead, but the wayback machine did scrape the page in 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20040313093255/http://www.hcprotek.com/proddnld.asp?type=sw
The last available copy of the software was supported on Win 3.1 through XP and was a 328k download called "PD506.zip" and of course, that didn't get archived.
There is what seems to be an image of the diskette on the Internet Archive ( https://archive.org/details/protek-506-rs232c-driver-diskette ) that lists as version 2.03 and it's in a .ima disk image format, which at least at my desk I can't seem to readily read.
Does anyone else have a copy of the diskette somewhere?