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'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'
time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Obscure HP T/F
instruments in ebay.fr
There are worse things than breaking up a collection.
The Baaken Museum of Electricity in Life, near Minneapolis had a
wonderful series
LaJeunesse
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 at 1:33 AM From: Bill Hawkins
b...@iaxs.net To: 'Tom Van Baak' t...@leapsecond.com,
'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement'
time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Obscure HP T/F
instruments in ebay.fr
There are worse things than
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
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
Hi
Look at the economics of a museum. Count the heads on the payroll.
Count the paying customers you see times the admission fee.
At least around here most of them have a budget that looks like:
Costs: X
Money in from visitors: X/10
Money in from membership fees: X/5
Money from the gift shop:
In message CALiMYruTbdvcMu+kgwUfxBgWYXyAh=bnuvvyzt2kpp6trbv...@mail.gmail.com
, Adrian Godwin writes:
I'd be happy to lend
them to a testgear museum but I don't know of one, at least not in the UK.
The age of electronics is just approaching the 50 year cliff where people
start to
This stuff is lovely, but it's enthusiast's equipment, not public or
commercial museums. There's a great computer museum in Paderborn, Germany -
it's owned by the founder of an ATM company. I love that it has, in
Germany, a really good exhibit about Bletchley Park.
There's a pinball machine
, 2015 at 1:33 AM
From: Bill Hawkins b...@iaxs.net
To: 'Tom Van Baak' t...@leapsecond.com, 'Discussion of precise time and
frequency measurement' time-nuts@febo.com
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Obscure HP T/F instruments in ebay.fr
There are worse things than breaking up a collection.
The Baaken
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
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 15:44:07 +
Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote:
In message F2FE4856E917473A8C816D7A492E03B4@pc52, 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
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
In message cad2jfajfp4zrc7w5fupyw4c1dottlu+he2tawg+oz41ahef...@mail.gmail.com
, 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
In message F2FE4856E917473A8C816D7A492E03B4@pc52, 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
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk
To: time-nuts@febo.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 12:57 PM
Subject: [time-nuts] Obscure HP T/F instruments in ebay.fr
There is a seller on the french eBay which has some rather old/obscure
HP T/F instruments up cheap
What beautiful looking instruments. I bet they look just as sexy from
behind. Someone should make a coffee table book of glamour shots of old HP
gear. I'd buy a copy. Including a gatefold of a full rack, captioned Nice
rack
Tom Harris celephi...@gmail.com
On 19 March 2015 at 06:57,
Poul-Henning
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.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk
wrote:
There is a seller on the
There is a seller on the french eBay which has some rather old/obscure
HP T/F instruments up cheap:
281603533317 HP K05 5060A Linear Phase Detector
281607493683 HP J19 59992A HP5371A Demonstrator
311298011221 HP 8709A Synchronizer
311307909618 HP 101A 1 MC Highly Stable Quartz Oscillator
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