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| 6PTsocket:
My first meter was a PACO kit vacuum tube voltmeter. You had to plug it in to the wall and it had these funny glass bottles inside that glowed. The RCA Volt Ohmist was also popular at the time. Simpson analog voms were popular and Tripplet made a pocket VOM. Surprisingly the Simpson and the Tripplet are still around.I went years without a personal digital though I had them at work. I finally broke down and bought a Tektronix TX3 that was their attempt to compete with the Fluke 87. It is a great meter and still going strong. Fluke bought Tektronix and reissued the TX3 under a new model number and switched the blue boot for Fluke yellow. It was a high end Fluke at the time. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk |
| Vtile:
--- Quote from: deephaven on October 04, 2011, 07:53:50 pm ---In 1960 when I was 10 I had one of these. https://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=5037.0;attach=15795;image --- End quote --- I do wonder what is the CAT rating for that meter. :-DD |
| Tepe:
--- Quote from: Vtile on August 26, 2018, 08:36:11 am ---I do wonder what is the CAT rating for that meter. :-DD --- End quote --- Electricity was less dangerous back then. Just like X-rays and asbestos. |
| Neomys Sapiens:
--- Quote from: Vtile on August 26, 2018, 08:36:11 am ---I do wonder what is the CAT rating for that meter. :-DD --- End quote --- CAT -1 = do not use with a cat in the same building! |
| alpher:
Sanwa sranwa, try this for the proper analog mechanical beast: For a short while graduated to this: Then at the beginning of eighties I bought a first digital meter, don't remember the make, some sort of generic manual ranging ICL7106 chinesium (or taiwanesium at the time). Too bad didn't save it, served me well into the mid 2000's. |
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