Chemstation Replacement

[crsimons]

Does anyone know of a freeware/linux based program that can control an Agilent series 1100 HPLC? The computer that ours is currently attached to is crapping out and we are looking to replace/upgrade.

[Consumer Products Guy]

Buy a used computer, or load Win2000 onto a newer computer, and use your Chemstation disc and re-load.

[mckrause]

Depends on your rev of software. We're running several 1050s on A.10 under Win 7 Pro.

[antonk]

We have started 1100 driver 5-years ago (our drivers are cross-platform) but unfinished because of instrument absence under the hands.
No way to test and nobody needs it.

We also started a HP1100 emulator written in PHP - but most of the protocol knowledge - is reverse-engineering. Need the documentation or actual instrument to finish both ends - driver and emulator.

Here is linux version latest builds
http://www.unichrom.com/chrom/ucdle.php

Here is DDK - http://www.unichrom.com/chrom/ucddke.shtml

enjoy,

In fact the Agilent ICF (Instrument Control Framework) is a "kinda-kross-platform" layer written in .NET C# but it is highly tied with nice GUI binary dlls (hipster look-and-feel), so no way to make it platform independent. We also started a intermediate layer - .NET ICF application running on Windows serving instrument to network, but same story - no instrument, procrastination, lack of money etc

[itspip]

It may be a good time to discuss upgrading the software, depending on which version you are running. That could also dictate in the HPLC control software (I am assuming ChemStation) which version of Windows you could use. You may be able to go with XP or even 7.

[aidnai]

-- and this is where I chime in and mention using a virtual machine running on a modern PC. You can run windows 3.x (or anything you want) if you need to this way. If you need GPIB, get a http://www.keysight.com/en/pd-851808-pn ... =US&lc=eng agilent 82357B. For running the VM VMWare is pretty nice but VirtualBox is free and also works.