To be fair, that's a small redesign of a 40 year old design (everything is still through hole, for example). The AFG31k is a brand new design from the ground u

To be fair, that's a small redesign of a 40 year old design (everything is still through hole, for example). The AFG31k is a brand new design from the ground up and it still has GPIB! And it's far from an isolated case, GPIB has a strong network effect, pun intended.