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| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: Fungus on February 06, 2023, 02:31:11 pm --- --- Quote from: tggzzz on February 06, 2023, 02:24:40 pm --- --- Quote from: Fungus on February 06, 2023, 01:54:19 pm --- --- Quote from: tggzzz on February 06, 2023, 12:46:15 pm --- --- Quote from: Fungus on February 06, 2023, 10:46:42 am ---Do you own a smart phone? Do you find the user interface "too modern"? What do you suggest as input instead of a touch screen? --- End quote --- No; a smart phone would be useless as I am deaf. --- End quote --- Smartphones are perfect for deaf people. You can do text messages with them... --- End quote --- I send/receive text messages with my phone. --- End quote --- You're missing out on sending/receiving photos? --- End quote --- No, not in the slightest. (My phone could send/receive photos, but they would be too crappy. I still have £10 data credit available, even though I bought it a couple of years ago). |
| Njk:
It's always good to keep using the existing equipment for as long as possible. In that way, you can reduce the demand for new ones. Not much, but still. So less resources and energy will be wasted for mass manufacturing of new toys. |
| chilternview:
--- Quote from: Finderbinder on February 04, 2023, 09:02:25 pm ---Is there a serious reason to pack valuable space with a high level but bulky and heavy old benchtop test equipment (like 90' HP, Agilent, Keithley and so on)? :popcorn: Besides that, old equipment have a less informative displays, consumes more electricity, is less compatible with nowadays technologies. Finally mentally it makes you feel stuck in the past :scared: Or... I am wrong? :-// --- End quote --- Well, I haven't seen a modern version of my trusty HP4145B that either (a) I can afford or (b) is even available from those Chinese vendors. Yes its large and the user interface is very 80's but it does the job and nothing seems to come close. |
| Finderbinder:
--- Quote from: xrunner on February 06, 2023, 01:45:43 pm ---...In the pic you see two 90's hp kit alongside a very new Siglent scope (SDS2202X-E). In the second pic you see two units of the bulky / heavy class of which you speak. The Agilent 8648A RF generator cannot be replaced with a new item of the same caliber of design for the same money. You'd have to spend a whole lot more for brand new so I make room for that. Below it is an hp 5334B frequency counter. --- End quote --- Ok, I have to agree, if you can stack units nicely on each other at least it looks neat and visually takes less space :-+ But when all units are of various dimensions that looks like a bunch of crap :wtf: Is it possible/easy to choose a needed/wanted equipment with identical dimensions (mostly width, and some depth)? ::) |
| tautech:
--- Quote from: Finderbinder on February 06, 2023, 09:29:49 pm --- --- Quote from: xrunner on February 06, 2023, 01:45:43 pm ---...In the pic you see two 90's hp kit alongside a very new Siglent scope (SDS2202X-E). In the second pic you see two units of the bulky / heavy class of which you speak. The Agilent 8648A RF generator cannot be replaced with a new item of the same caliber of design for the same money. You'd have to spend a whole lot more for brand new so I make room for that. Below it is an hp 5334B frequency counter. --- End quote --- Ok, I have to agree, if you can stack units nicely on each other at least it looks neat and visually takes less space :-+ But when all units are of various dimensions that looks like a bunch of crap :wtf: Is it possible/easy to choose a needed/wanted equipment with identical dimensions (mostly width, and some depth)? ::) --- End quote --- Yep, they're called Rack Mount and some equipment is only available in a RM format and others you can get bracketing for rack mount installation. |
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