On Wednesday 09 March 2016 11:28:07 Chris Albertson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Cecil Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can't think of a much better testimonial for a quality piece of > > equipment. During that time period they used nothing but the best > > components and if no one made one good enough then they made it > > themselves. > > > > By the way, it still works. > > I used one of those in a lab at UCLA in the late 70's to fix some > small computers. Computer clocks were slow enough (1MHx or so) in > those days that an old scope would work. > > The down side of Tek building their old equipment so well was that > only government labs and large companies could afford them
The upside of that was back in those days, the stuff they built had a lifetime warranty. We had nearly a dozen of their broadcast waveform monitors, 529's IIRC, 2 at the transmitter, and in the middle my shift one morning one of them let all the smoke out while I was trying to baby a 4cx5000 whose screen was no longer in the shadow of the control grid. I suppose a heat stress crack in the crt glass near the big rear socket, 1/2" long I found when I pulled the old one out, so it let in the air rather slowly, but it eventually arced and crowbared the power transformer, killing it too. Both were tek made. I don't think the rep was happy, but in a week I had a fresh crt and a power tranny for it, no charge, and it was well past 5 yo. There were a few other small parts cooked but we had those & I didn't fuss. Today we're lucky to get a 90 day warranty on a $500K transmitter. I do not call that progress. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785111&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
