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Title: 2 Channel ADC212
Post by Jon Ht5 on Mar 22^nd, 2015 at 1:44am

This may seem a silly question,but I still have my old ADC212 Pico alongside my shiny new 4 channel. It runs off a parallel port connector,plus its own separate 12v supply.
I would like to lend it to a young lad who is interested in scope work,but his laptop only has usb type ports. Can anyone suggest either a direct usb to Pico lead or an adaptor lead that will work ?

Title: Re: 2 Channel ADC212
Post by Tom Roberts on Mar 22^nd, 2015 at 11:40am

Jon,

The old Pico USB adapters were discontinued years ago. Might be some used ones out there somewhere.

There have been some who have used PCM/CIA cards but that was a long time ago and I don't know which ones would work now.

Title: Re: 2 Channel ADC212
Post by Jon Ht5 on Mar 25^th, 2015 at 12:24pm

Ooops - looks like I should have sorted this out a while back.Never occurred to me at the time that it would be a problem,seems a shame that its stuck with being used on an old laptop.I'll keep looking and asking.
Thank you for your reply Tom. If anyone has a lead they want to sell please contact me.

Title: Re: 2 Channel ADC212
Post by Tom Roberts on Mar 25^th, 2015 at 12:34pm

Jon,

The other issue with the Pico USB adapter is that there will never be any 64 bit drivers for it so the PC has to be a 32 bit machine.

Title: Re: 2 Channel ADC212
Post by Jon Ht5 on Mar 27^th, 2015 at 5:46am

Oh dear, its not sounding too good,maybe I should just try my luck on Ebay ? £50 anybody....