Re: [time-nuts] Obscure HP T/F instruments in ebay.fr

2015-03-19 Thread Richard (Rick) Karlquist
Before the Keysight split, there was an Agilent museum at HQ in Santa Clara. It was packed full of interesting old HP stuff and even had a part time archivist. I'm now retired and don't know what became of this museum in the split. I feel I got out while the getting was good. Rick Karlquist N6R

Re: [time-nuts] Obscure HP T/F instruments in ebay.fr

2015-03-19 Thread Bill Hawkins
There are worse things than breaking up a collection. The Baaken Museum of Electricity in Life, near Minneapolis had a wonderful series of devices that used electricity to examine or prolong life, or to extract money from suckers. About 20 years ago, someone felt that there wasn't enough traffic a

Re: [time-nuts] Obscure HP T/F instruments in ebay.fr

2015-03-19 Thread Tom Van Baak
> If that is the case, then this stuff belongs to a museum and not on ebay. > IMHO. Hi Attila , I completely understand how you feel, but this happens all the time with niche collections. You just can't find a brick and mortar museum interested in taking all that inventory. How many people wou

Re: [time-nuts] Obscure HP T/F instruments in ebay.fr

2015-03-19 Thread Attila Kinali
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:44:07 + "Poul-Henning Kamp" wrote: > > In message , "Tom Van Baak" writes: > > >That is the most stunning collection of old hp gear I've ever seen. > >Given the content, location, and timing it looks to me like it's > >from http://hpmemoryproject.org > >See al

Re: [time-nuts] Harmonics suppression in ring oscillators

2015-03-19 Thread Attila Kinali
Moin, On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 21:50:03 +0100 Florian Teply wrote: > My guess would be slightly different: the fundamental mode of > oscillation could be considered the lowest energy state of all > oscillation modes. Assuming that the system wants to minimize energy, > this would be the mode to choos

Re: [time-nuts] Harmonics suppression in ring oscillators

2015-03-19 Thread Florian Teply
Am Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:17:58 +0100 schrieb Attila Kinali : > On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:19:55 +0100 > Florian Teply wrote: > > > > Good, I am not alone.. I felt stupid not being able to find > > > something this basic. > > > > > Maybe we are stupid not being able to find something this basic, but >

Re: [time-nuts] Obscure HP T/F instruments in ebay.fr

2015-03-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , "Tom Van Baak" writes: >That is the most stunning collection of old hp gear I've ever seen. >Given the content, location, and timing it looks to me like it's >from http://hpmemoryproject.org >See also http://hpmemoryproject.org/mm_tributes/ >Can anyone confirm? No idea, but

Re: [time-nuts] Obscure HP T/F instruments in ebay.fr

2015-03-19 Thread Tom Van Baak
Poul-Henning, That is the most stunning collection of old hp gear I've ever seen. Given the content, location, and timing it looks to me like it's from http://hpmemoryproject.org See also http://hpmemoryproject.org/mm_tributes/ Can anyone confirm? Thanks, /tvb - Original Message - From

Re: [time-nuts] Harmonics suppression in ring oscillators

2015-03-19 Thread Attila Kinali
On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:19:55 +0100 Florian Teply wrote: > > Good, I am not alone.. I felt stupid not being able to find something > > this basic. > > > Maybe we are stupid not being able to find something this basic, but > then we're stupid together, so at least we have company ;-) :-) > > H

Re: [time-nuts] Obscure HP T/F instruments in ebay.fr

2015-03-19 Thread Adrian Godwin
Thanks for the heads-up. Postage to the UK isn't quite so bad, and he accepted a lower offer .. The list of other items is well worth a scan, too. I don't have a reference setup working yet but if there's anyone near Bedfordshire, UK that would like to do an ADEV plot (just for fun, I'm not expect

Re: [time-nuts] Obscure HP T/F instruments in ebay.fr

2015-03-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , paul swed writes: >They are interesting the 101 looks pretty nice. Considering the Euro is >just about a dollar today. $83 US. But then you see the shipping! OK time >to move on. Send them a message and ask if cheaper options are availble. Overall I have better than 50% hi