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| drtaylor:
Message to Dave: I worked at Fluke in the late 70s and early 80s as a design engineer. I started as a junior engineer on the original handheld DMM, the 8020. Later I was the chief designer of the very successful 8060 series, which by the way, was the first microcontroller based handheld DMM. Anyway, I have many Fluke DMMs that are gathering dust, and I wonder if you'd like them for your DMM collection? Most of them still work or just need minor repairs. Some of them are original hard model units, that is pre-production models. At one time I had a box of 30 or so 8060s that had a minor programming error, but otherwise worked fine. 8060s were cool for audio as they had dB conversion and a wide band (at least for the time, 100kHz) true RMS converter. I used to give them to friends, most notably, I gave one to my dear departed friend Jim Williams. Anyway, I have some of the first generation handhelds, 8020, 8026, 8060, 8062, benchtop versions 8012A, 37, and an 8920 Wideband TRMS AC Voltmeter that used a thermal converter. I also have a lot of vintage parts for various Fluke DMMs. It probably isn't widely known anymore, but the A/D in the Fluke 8020 was developed in a joint venture with Intersil. Then Intersil decided to market it to the world by making a tiny change to get around exclusivity...lawsuits ensued. The Intersil version is still available...the venerable ICL7106 and the LED version which Fluke never used, the ICL7107. When we started on the 8060, Fluke decided they had to have their own silicon fab to keep Intersil from getting our 4 1/2 digit design. Good times, perhaps a bad business decision on Fluke's part since they ended being stuck with an obsolete process and couldn't justify the numbers necessary to update it. The original TRMS chip used in the 8060 was designed by Fluke guru Norm Strong and developed in a joint venture with Motorola (when they were just a silicon company). Let me know, my wife would be glad to be rid of them. |
| edavid:
Did you work on the 8040A? That's my favorite, although it's not very practical. |
| Mr Simpleton:
:-DMM :-+ :-+ |
| Kryoclasm:
Used Fluke DMM's in the US Air Force for years, love them. They really spoiled me, now I compare all DMM's to Fluke. |
| poida_pie:
paging Mr Modemhead ! You need to see this. |
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