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Connecting to Old Instruments Having +-12V RS232 Voltage Levels

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Hi,

  I have an old piece of instrument built in the 1980s. It requires +-12V voltage levels for the RS232 interface. My eBay USB to serial dongle doesn't work. Can someone suggest a PCI or PCIe card that can reach +-12V? For example, can NI's PCI-8430/2 do the job? I found the following table in the file http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/373170f.pdf, where the "Driver output" is listed to be 5 to 25V. Is this the voltage level of the signal, such as the "Data Treminal Ready" (DTR)?

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