Alberto Campisi

Thanks a lot Albert, your input is highly appreciated. I am not planning to modify the acquisition board EEPROM but rather doing some standard setting-save/retrieve and snapshot collection that I would have done through the floppy, so using the GPIB-USB converter is what I need. Do I need to install any SW on the PC to communicate with the oscilloscope? I assume that if I want to "control" the oscilloscope operations sequence through GPIB commands (which is something that presently goes behind my interested) I would need the NI SW installed, but what if I simply want to transfer to the PC the snapshots collected via the oscilloscope? Thanks
 

I have a TDS 684C that I'd like restart using. Before start looking for few floppy disks and a reader, I was wondering is any of the other periferic present on the back of the scope (RS-232-centronics-[GPIB]) could be used to exchange with a PC snapshots and configurations as effectively as through the floppy. There are converters from any of those standards to the USB, but I don't know if any of them has some plug and play capability, or if the drivers for latest versions of OS  (Windows 10) can be retrieved anywhere. Did anyone played with these interfaces and can share his/her opinion? Thanks