Magnus Danielson wrote:
None of these approaches is rocket science to design anymore. HP/Agilent surely could at the time of Z3801A and followers.
Yet the problem of an oscillator having a high drift rate after long-term storage is not one that a development team is likely to be thinking about.
Nor is it a problem that can be easily examined, since it requires a bunch of old units lying around the development lab. Old units don't exist when the product is new, and even if they had traveled back in time to buy and age a few units, after sufficient testing they would stop drifting and therefore be useless for the test.
Nevertheless, 25 years later we expect the whiz-bang engineers at HP to have thought of the problem and solved it.
--David Forbes, Tucson _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
