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Originally posted by voodooflux View PostI'd love a 'scope. I wouldn't have the faintest idea how to use it, but I'd want it sat on my shelf making important looking patterns.
Some former colleagues of mine, device driver and BIOS developers, used them all them time and I was very envious.Comment
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Originally posted by voodooflux View PostI'd love a 'scope. I wouldn't have the faintest idea how to use it, but I'd want it sat on my shelf making important looking patterns.
Some former colleagues of mine, device driver and BIOS developers, used them all them time and I was very envious.
There's another 3 upstairs, including a classic valve jobbie from about 1953, one of the dim, green & fuzzy British made from girders type of oscilloscope...Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostHi Zeity
Anyone know where Bazza is today?
That's why it's been quiet...Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostLogic state analysers are cool
Originally posted by zeitghost View PostThere's another 3 upstairs, including a classic valve jobbie from about 1953, one of the dim, green & fuzzy British made from girders type of oscilloscope...Where are we going? And what’s with this hand basket?Comment
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Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
Anyone know where Bazza is today?
That's why it's been quiet...Where are we going? And what’s with this hand basket?Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostLogic state analysers are cool
At one place, the Tech Director had bought an HP Logic Analyzer... I attempted to use it once, but on discovering the size of the manual, I put it back under the bench & used a different approach...
That bug caused a radio modem to drop (randomly) about 8 to 14 characters in every 100k or so.
It was caused by the interrupts being re-enabled one instruction too soon, which under the right circumstances caused the interrupts to stack up & corrupt the pointer to the serial receive buffer.
I fixed it & lo! we went bust within the week...Comment
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Originally posted by voodooflux View PostYes, I'll have one of those too!
I've just thrown away a 1950's sound meter - it felt like it was made from cast iron. The only sounds it would have measured would have been the groans from the operator trying to hold it steady.
In fact, one of these:
http://www.thevalvepage.com/testeq/hartley/13a/13a.htm
It was so heavy that I needed two hands to pick it up, and the carrying handle used to leave impressions in my hands...Comment
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Originally posted by voodooflux View PostHaven't seen RichardCranium around in a while either - is he on holiday?Comment
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