Adinstruments channel recorders are never sold without software (information: Adinstruments support). If you have a Adinstruments device without software, get your serial number, which is at the back of the device and contact the Adinstruments support. They will ask you, where you bought your Adinstruments device. They will give you a copy of the Adinstruments Chart software, which allows to record data from Adinstruments recorders to .txt. Files.
Sensor data from an Adinstruments Powerlab /410 channel recorder without driver:
Read out data from the Adinstruments Powerlab 8sp channel recorder usb port:
To stream Adinstruments device sensor data to Matlab (and eventually also to Octave) the Adinstruments Labchart software is required.