> John > I wonder what that same engineer would think when I used to link 2 453's > together when trouble shooting problems on and optical character reader > using a crt and pmt's to scan the document.
A Flying Spot scanner is entirely legitimate. I'd use a 600 series monitor though. There ia a Dutch "artist" that uses such a setup as a scene generator for a complex NATO (?) RADAR. > Pardon my ignorance but what is deep memory? Please have mercy, I come > from the days of 64k was wow! It amazing what DEC, DG and others did with 64kW. Now you can barely look at a web page with <512 MB. The Tek RTD-710A has 10 nS memory in 64 MW blocks. That's deep, IMO. I'd think a few Meg would be helpful. Best, -John =============== > Thanks > > Ewing (Rix) Seacord > K2AVP/4/499 > eseac...@verizon.net > > 845-628-0892 Home > 914-262-9186 Cell > 914-233-3886 Skype Notebook > > > On 4/17/2012 10:43 AM, J. Forster wrote: >> Sometime, just for fun, I'd like to get a Tek sales 'engineer' in to >> demo >> his latest, hideously expensive, digital toy and compare the display to >> a >> 453 from 1965 on a WW II LORAN-A simulator that works with- gasp- vacuum >> tubes. >> >> Just for laughs, of course. >> >> -John >> >> > > _______________________________________________ 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.