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Lawsen:
We all have our humble beginnings.  I remembered, when I was at San Jose State University, a Spanish woman civil engineering student, showed me her Fluke 77 Series One digital multimeter, that she won in her high school contest and her stellar grades, too.  She was pretty.  She started with a Fluke 77 Series one.  My start was humble, a Radio Shack Micronta analog multimeter.  I did not upgrade to a Fluke 8060A (broke and traded in), until community college electronics trade school.  What was your first multimeter?  I have relative who is an electrical engineer and licensed, but he used his Simpson 260 analog multimeter.  He never upgraded, that is all he use, even with the brittle plastic phenolic case. 

david77:
I got my first multimeter sometime arounf 1990 but I couldn't tell you what brand or modell it was.
It was a simple yellow 3,5 digits chinese (or more likely Hong Kong back then) thing with just the
most basic ranges. The manufacturers name started with "H" I'm pretty shure.
It served me for the first 10 years of my electronic hobby then I upgraded to the Metex 3630CR
that I still have - and sometimes use - today.

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I regret not being around when the bakelite Avometers were popular!

Kiriakos-GR:
My first one was an high quality Japanese analogue, I was just 15 years old (1985), accidentally I did damaged it,
I was clueless about repairing it, and ended up on the garbage can.

I was not so much in love with it, the damn scale on it was so narrow and hard to read.  :)

The replacement was a more tiny analogue, I kept it for two years and gave it as gift to another person,
as soon I got my true worthy digital one at 1988, the  Pros kit 03-9303C .  https://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=4825.0

About 12 years  later (2000), I got my small UNI-T 30D, as small and compact.
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=4001.0

EEV blog time
At 2010 I got my first Fluke  https://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=258.msg42039#msg42039at the same year got and another three Fluke  https://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=718.0

At 2010 got also my analogue industrial Metrawatt. 
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=342.0

And at 2011 Agilent honored me by offering to me their latest U1272A for review.
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=3232.0

Some one should pull the plug from EEV , it cost me money !!  ;D ;D ;D ;D




 

PetrosA:
I had the old black Amprobe clamp meters to use at work back in the 1980s, but the first meter i ever bought (c. 1989) was an RCC-350 made in Korea. It was not TRMS, but it was digital, and was pretty state of the art back then. I think I paid about $65 for it by mistake (about a day's wages), as I seem to remember that a day after I bought mine they had fixed the price in the supply house to about $140. At that time my supply house carried RCC and Hioki test gear, with the Hioki costing about $100 more for a similar unit.

I took it with me to Poland in 1992 and brought it back with me in 2006. I finally sold it at a yard sale about two years ago for $10. It still worked fine, had no issues with the LCD, and was a great little DMM.

Next I had an Extech EX830 1000A clamp meter, then an Agilent U1211A, then two Greenlees - the DM300 (to make up for the inadequate resistance range on the U11211A) later replaced by a DM810 that also did datalogging, then I got my U1272A. Lately I bought a Greenlee CM-450 clamp meter for getting into tight places and as a primary tool pouch meter (it's very small!).

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