I pretty much agree. Toss in so many companies trashed the originals and you are left with luck that someone took a copy home with them.
I'll toss in another one, you get a surplus dealer and he immediately breaks up a 'system' up to in his mind make more money and many times that corrugated box with papers floppies etc gets tossed out or a couple times I've witnessed when I use to go to industrial auctions tossed in the dumpster as his is loading his hoard. I made it a point to be around after everyone has loaded up. Got many a manual, attenuator, scope probe, etc that way. The same goes for what HP/Agilent calls CLIPS, or what should be called real service manual. After say 1990 all this stuff was on a disk drive somewhere, and should have been copied to at least a ftp site. Even drawings and manuals could be eventually recreated. It actually surprises me the of all companies HP/Agilent does not have all documentation say after 1990 available. -pete On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:11 AM, paul swed <paulsw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Indeed as I am slowly learning there is a gap in equipment vintage thats a > black hole. > Late 80s to 2005 approx. This is the point that the various test instruments > went more to a hybrid mix of hardware and software with external software > loads. When you pick up an instrument there are rarely any software disks. > Though on 2 occasions I have been lucky. A pair logic analyzers Tek and HP > obtained less then a week apart, go figure. > Then about 2001 to now and in the future very good/reasonable home brew gear > showed up with essentially open software and using the power of the PC and > modern chips sets. > Its unfortunate that the gap exists because I have seen some great gear at > the MIT flea market and obvious as heck 0 chance to make it operational. > Regards > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk>wrote: > >> In message <298e3f36-5846-4814-ba22-3e9c520e3...@rtty.us>, Bob Camp >> writes: >> >Hi >> > >> >They are very cool devices - when you get them working. Without >> the custom Windows software, they make a nice piece of wall art. A >> lot of them are mated up with non-HP VXI PC's so getting them running >> can take you off in multiple directions. Timing wise, they will do >> all of the standard stuff (AVAR, MTIE, TDEV etc) at 5370(?) type >> resolution. >> >> Is there any register-level programming information for them ? >> >> If so, putting an open source UNIX on the VXI PC should be possible... >> >> -- >> Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 >> p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 >> FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe >> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
