And I do love and appreciate the old, built-to-last-a-lifetime test equipment ... my bench is all Racal, Tek, HP, Fluke, etc and the median age is probably at least 25 years but, I mean, $400 is almost halfway to a nice used spectrum analyzer and I know which I'd rather have :O Choices, choices...
Best, Sean On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Sean Caron <sca...@umich.edu> wrote: > Well, we all have differing levels of electronics knowledge ... and net > worth... which tip the calculus one way or the other depending on the one's > personal situation... As much as I do wish money could be no object, that's > not realistic for me. > > Best, > > Sean > > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Jay West <jw...@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> Sean wrote.... >> ------ >> The median listing price for them on eBay for a 29B with pack seems to be >> around $3-400 which IMO is a little steep for a 30+ year old PROM >> programmer. >> ------ >> Nope. There is a very good reason why they still command such a price. >> Worth every penny. >> >> I can't belittle a 30 year old piece of test equipment no more than I >> could a similarly aged computer :) >> >> J >> >> >> >