Riddle me this:
What might this strange layout, that looks like it has some things too many and others not enough, be?
Hint: Not all holes will be plated and there will be a ground plane below.
Ultra bonus points: (WIN AS MUCH WASHING MACHINES AS YOU CAN CATCH!)
What crazy construction revelation befell me?
Having watched EEs who believe themselves to be genius* programmers in action
For this the Internet coined the phrase pair:
Beware of the programmer with a screwdriver
Beware of the electrical engineer with a text editor
We call that a "Rollout", and it's how you get shiny new boxes to play with, motherf***er!
mnem
*veteran of a thousandpsychic warsall-night bridge conferences*
Kind of explain why it's not booting. Now I need to find another image software or an older version of Acronis or maybe something that can convert a GPT partition back to MBR ?
Arrggg stupid PC and windows!!!
Don't use "smart" tools to copy the HDD. Use an as dumb as possible tool to copy the old hard drive content to the new one sector by sector. This will completely preserve the layout etc. Best results are achieved using "dd" on a Linux box.
Who would have thought putting a PC and windows in a spectrum analyzer was a bad idea ?
Sometimes ago I found myself wanting some newer gears. Maybe running some version of windows, with nice UI and everything. Well I got some of those now and I'm currently living in PC hell.
Is it booting ? no of course not.
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So I'm trying to upgrade the harddrive to something better than those old mechanical one prone to failure. Got a adapter, because everything is SATA now and not IDE. Which one of those is actually going to work ?
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The drive is detected correctly.
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Going back to Acronis True Image, now this time actually pay attention to what the software is doing. The original drive is quite simple, just 2 partitions that bootup with MBR.
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Now when I copy the image on another drive Acronis Is actually converting the drive to GPT (different way of representing the master boot record), wait what
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Kind of explain why it's not booting. Now I need to find another image software or an older version of Acronis or maybe something that can convert a GPT partition back to MBR ?
Arrggg stupid PC and windows!!!Clonezilla to the rescue; practically, is a "nice" interface around dd, as capt bullshot recommended; as bonus, is bootable.
Then why make up non factual crap to defend poor performance of your adopted country and then be surprised when you get a response! You were so far away from any semblance of the truth and fact it was warranted.
So its you that needs to take that FUCKING chill pill and consider what you type and before you hit the key to post more
As to other peanuts COVID is NOT POLITICS it is public health
It started because you took exception to 25 CPS using the adjective "draconian" in a perfectly innocuous non-political post asking an innocent question and you overeacted and made it political by responding with an uncalled for "us and them" reply criticising both 25 CPS and Canada. Dial it back several notches please.
Reusing boilerplate text is normal so I wasn't surprised to see that statement about being able to arrange inspection of that 34401A copied and pasted into the auction or included as part of a setup template. What surprised me, based on the first hand accounts from my childhood best friend who lives in Sydney now, is that this wouldn't be possible, but nothing was added to invite prospective buyers to arrange a substitute like being able to ask the seller to demonstrate the meter in photos or on video instead.
With respect to using the word "draconian", that's honestly the impression I've gotten from the first hand accounts I've been hearing. My friend's suffering. He really is. How much TV can you watch? How much reading can you do? How much other stuff can you fill the time with when you're locked up at home staring at the same four walls brooding while your mind wanders? Meanwhile, I hear about using party drugs to get away from it and fill the void as the days turn into weeks turn into months turn in to years soon, I hear about taking GHB and drinking half a bottle of champagne and popping sleeping pills to unwind enough to sleep at night. And I understand. You do what you need to do to survive; we both learned that a long time ago when we were kids living on the same street. At least I can leave the house, do stuff, fill the time, live somewhat of a normal existence but when I hear from my old best friend who's been boxed in so bad for so long and everything's been taken away that there's nothing left but drugs and alcohol to cope with it, my heart breaks and it really forces some critical thinking about the collateral damage inflicted by a cost no object, ends justify the means approach to things.
Riddle me this:
What might this strange layout, that looks like it has some things too many and others not enough, be?
Hint: Not all holes will be plated and there will be a ground plane below.
Ultra bonus points: (WIN AS MUCH WASHING MACHINES AS YOU CAN CATCH!)
What crazy construction revelation befell me?
For those in the golden horseshoe/GTA, there's an HP 3580A listed for sale in Brampton for $525:
https://www.kijiji.ca/v-general-electronics/mississauga-peel-region/hp-spectrum-analyzer/1587504249
Picture from the listing. The seller claims it's working but it isn't shown powered up and the frequency setting that was left on it is out of range at 99 KHz and the price could probably be negotiated down because of that broken knob.
I've already got one of these so I'm not going after this one.
We call that a "Rollout", and it's how you get shiny new boxes to play with, motherf***er!
mnem
*veteran of a thousandpsychic warsall-night bridge conferences*Ain't that what BD's busy doing ATM ?
Things are pretty quiet here in his absence.
Kind of explain why it's not booting. Now I need to find another image software or an older version of Acronis or maybe something that can convert a GPT partition back to MBR ?
Arrggg stupid PC and windows!!!
Don't use "smart" tools to copy the HDD. Use an as dumb as possible tool to copy the old hard drive content to the new one sector by sector. This will completely preserve the layout etc. Best results are achieved using "dd" on a Linux box.
This actually a good idea. I should take some time and put together a bootable usb stick with everything I need to clone and backup drives.
The reason I'm using Acronis is that I'm also working on a Rohde & Schwarz FSP spectrum analyzer with a completely dead drive. I found an image online but it's a .tib file that was made with Acronis.
Riddle me this:
What might this strange layout, that looks like it has some things too many and others not enough, be?
Hint: Not all holes will be plated and there will be a ground plane below.
Ultra bonus points: (WIN AS MUCH WASHING MACHINES AS YOU CAN CATCH!)
What crazy construction revelation befell me?
Riddle me this:
What might this strange layout, that looks like it has some things too many and others not enough, be?
Hint: Not all holes will be plated and there will be a ground plane below.
Ultra bonus points: (WIN AS MUCH WASHING MACHINES AS YOU CAN CATCH!)
What crazy construction revelation befell me?Is it a distributed amplifier?
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And I saw some other power on my way back home:
I don't know what the total output there was but Canadian Pacific was well into the eighth notch and moving it.
Riddle me this:
What might this strange layout, that looks like it has some things too many and others not enough, be?
Hint: Not all holes will be plated and there will be a ground plane below.
Ultra bonus points: (WIN AS MUCH WASHING MACHINES AS YOU CAN CATCH!)
What crazy construction revelation befell me?Is it a distributed amplifier?Indeed it is
Many thanks to Med, who pointed out these were used on the Tek scopes - I got sucked down that rabbit hole immediately...
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And I saw some other power on my way back home:
I don't know what the total output there was but Canadian Pacific was well into the eighth notch and moving it.Two engines only? That's a short one(~100wagons), unless you have mid-and-end-engines, when you go can up to 200 wagons. Depending on the current engine notch, you will wait between 3(notch8/100wagons) to 25(notch4/200 wagons) minutes to pass; below notch 4 you turn around, in the same way when you see three or more active engines to pull...
Kind of explain why it's not booting. Now I need to find another image software or an older version of Acronis or maybe something that can convert a GPT partition back to MBR ?
Arrggg stupid PC and windows!!!
Don't use "smart" tools to copy the HDD. Use an as dumb as possible tool to copy the old hard drive content to the new one sector by sector. This will completely preserve the layout etc. Best results are achieved using "dd" on a Linux box.
This actually a good idea. I should take some time and put together a bootable usb stick with everything I need to clone and backup drives.
The reason I'm using Acronis is that I'm also working on a Rohde & Schwarz FSP spectrum analyzer with a completely dead drive. I found an image online but it's a .tib file that was made with Acronis.
I'm fairly certain the Agilent DMM is the one from this thread where the RAM had died (location & scratches match), has the Chinesium RAM died too.
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showthread.php?p=1365376
David