Going to leave the battery comment alone. Most people with HP and other gear of age have experienced the dreaded leaking batteries from really poorly designed charging circuits. Even HP did the resistor diode thing. Regards Paul.
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:24 PM, cheater00 . <cheate...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the info. > > It could still be power off... just add a large capacitor as voltage backup > and make the unit sense when power is off. It should be able to shut down > quickly enough. That's how it works most of the time. Alternatively add > some 1.5v batteries and a charger. That should never run out. > > Running a PC without backup power is asking for trouble. A few 1.5v > batteries and a charger and buck-boost cost only 10 bucks. > > D. > On 24 Feb 2014 18:57, "paul swed" <paulsw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > D > > I can give you some insights here. Others will be more effective. We all > > agree that the 5370 frequency counters are great devices from 1980. Right > > there is the first issue. The old micros are getting old and failing. I > > have lost both 6800s and eproms. > > Thank heavens stuff is still available. > > But this board replaces those items completely. Welcome to 2014. Now we > > just have to worry about big fat capacitors. > > > > In addition it gives you remote control other then GPIB. We all love > GPIB, > > but us lazy types like Ethernet better. Cables are easier to manage. > > > > Finally the crazy thing is it gives you web services. Wow for a 1980s > box. > > All while leaving the front panel operation intact for simple quick > > applications. > > > > The only thing that can be annoying is there is a shut down procedure for > > the unit now. It used to be power off. > > > > All of the above for $90. > > Hope that helps you. > > Regards > > Paul > > WB8TSL > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Pete Lancashire > > <p...@petelancashire.com>wrote: > > > > > Goto one of the places selling the BB Black and look up BB View. > > > > > > Not pushing this disty just one that has a decent image > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-55844/l/element14-bb-view-lcd-cape-for-beaglebone-family-boards > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:50 AM, cheater00 . <cheate...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I browsed the page and the GitHub repository for a while, and read > the > > > > readme and read-more documents, but I still don't know what it > > > > actually adds. > > > > > > > > Perhaps it would be a good idea to document this? > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > D. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp < > p...@phk.freebsd.dk > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > In message <45dfb8f9-3595-4a5d-8dcc-fd7317988...@jks.com>, John > > > Seamons > > > > writes: > > > > > > > > > >>I am now accepting general orders for the hp 5370 processor > > replacement > > > > board. > > > > >>More info and ordering information at: <www.jks.com/5370/5370.html > > > > > > > > > > > > As one of the Beta-testers I can highly recommend this, it really > > gives > > > > > your HP5370 a kick into the next millenium. > > > > > > > > > > The potential for future improvements is also virtually unlimited: > > > > > > > > > > How about hooking up an LCD display and calculate and show allan > > > > > variance in real time ? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks a LOT John! > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > 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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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.
