Agilent / HP 59301A

The Agilent 59301A is an ASCII-Parallel Converter.

The 59301A ASCII-To-Parallel Converter is a useful instrument. This instrument allows units which are controlled via BCD input to be operated using the HP-IB. It can do this by accepting byte-serial ASCII characters from HP-IB and then converts them to parallel output. The 59301A can also be used to control other functions using its hexadecimal format.