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Surf the web with labview

Ok, this is not really related to the 6430 - only sort of. It turns out that labview has TCP vi's which are pretty easy to use. After changing text on the 6430 display yesterday, I started thinking about fun things I could put on it... like stock quotes or maybe a news ticker. I know, it's silly. For what it is worth,

You might use this technique to inteface your labview instrument with an external database, which could be quite useful. Of course, this could also be done with ODBC and LabSQL.