On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Monday 23 September 2013 08:49:33 Mark Wendt did opine: > > > > > > Nah, he needs one a these: > > > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/161110870354?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3 > > 984.m1423.l2649 > > But thats a Tek, its waaaayy old, and according to the link, a box of > parts. He needs something that Just Works, not a service engineers worst > nightmare before he even gets back to thinking about his problem. > Then how about this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/271275574595?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 You realize that the above was written tongue-in-cheek... ;-) > I have long time experience with 2 different Hitachi scopes. You turn them > on, and they work. Those Tek things were great when A, they were new, and > B, in an R&D lab. > > Tek today is a far cry from the Tek that impressed the hell out of me in > the early 60's when they had a lifetime warranty. But now they clean out > the parts crib 30 milliseconds after the federally mandated 5 years support > period has passed and beyond that 5 years there is NO support. > The beauty of those mainframe scopes is they are repairable. I'm up to a half dozen, in lab mainframe scopes to TM500 and TM5000 plugin scopes. And they all "Just Work." ;-) > Heck, for this job, one of the DS-2O1's would work, but he would have a far > harder time learning to use it with its limited controls that do everything > depending on the mode its in, and its bandwidth is such that it would miss > step pulses, confusing him. He isn't familiar with a "scope" at all I > suspect, so he needs something where every knob does exactly what you > expect once he learns what to expect. The phrase Just Works keeps coming > to mind. > Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
