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med6753:

--- Quote from: GerryBags on May 12, 2018, 05:06:51 pm ---I had an Ebay purchase that was totally non-suspect turn out to be a scam. Got a message after the sale saying that he was away on holiday so he'd give me a refund...? That made no sense, so I was careful about clicking for a while, and sure enough a fake Paypal notification from the seller's Google mail account turns up hoping I'd use the link in the email. Scum bags.

Anyway, here's a shot of the 2467B today.... still hasn't exploded! It has already shown me that the TTL output of my LG function gen has gone a bit funky, and it's square wave is only square at about 1 KHz. I'll have to have a look at that soon. The service manual for the 2467B & 2465B turned up today, only a reprint, but it has got 11" x 14" prints of the pull-outs.

Hopefully by this time next week I shall have a fully working 2465B sitting on top of the 2467B.

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Looks good!  :-+

Cerebus:

--- Quote from: bd139 on May 12, 2018, 04:39:40 pm ---Usually in the chrome, Firefox and IE saved password usual hangouts :)

We recently started sending all our users phishing links and send the idiots who click them to re-education camps. I suggested concentration camps but they frowned and said “too soon” :D

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I refer the gentleman to my earlier answer.


--- Quote ---As for physical access, dousing the company plants in roundup solved the physical security problems. Straight in the bin rather than wedging the doors open.

I love that side of the job.

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mnementh:

--- Quote from: bd139 on May 12, 2018, 05:14:25 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on May 12, 2018, 04:57:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 12, 2018, 04:39:40 pm ---Usually in the chrome, Firefox and IE saved password usual hangouts :)

We recently started sending all our users phishing links and send the idiots who click them to re-education camps. I suggested concentration camps but they frowned and said “too soon” :D

As for physical access, dousing the company plants in roundup solved the physical security problems. Straight in the bin rather than wedging the doors open.

I love that side of the job.

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You are Simon Travglia, and I claim my £5.

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I am much much worse than the BOFH. I fired someone and revoked their door card while they were out for lunch. This was for calling me Stalin because I made them follow process to the letter.

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I'm SORRY!!! Please, PLEASE can I have the picture of me and my dog off my desk back?!? I know you still have it!  :-DD  *


I loved Simon Travaglia; conversed with him a few times back in the day on alt.sci.repair. (He's much nicer IRL than the BOFH... of course that would be hard not to manage.)

I spent my own time being the PFY at a number of gigs. Learned enough to know I was NOT the right person for any job title that even smelled like SysOp... but still went back to school 15 years ago for a Network Admin degree. All things considered, I'm probably lucky we ran out of money and I didn't get to finish it.  :phew:


--- Quote from:  Striped Irregular Bucket #5 ---Meantime I open up a copy of "VMS BASTARD OPERATORS MANUAL FROM HELL"; I'm reading the article I sent in about getting rid of those trouble users...

"... Modify the user's password minimum from 6 to 32 letters, give the password a 1 day lifetime, set it so that they HAVE to use the password generate utility when they change their password (so their password will always be something that looks like vaguely pronouncable line-noise), add a secondary password with the same as the above, then redefine their CLI tables so that the only command that works is DELETE, and all other commands point to it."
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mnem
*That wasn't why I called him Stalin anyways... it was the moustache.  >:D



GerryBags:
That 2465 really is a score! You got a free historical document, and it all looks in great condition. If it had been in a very humid environment it would have foxed much more heavily than it has done, so it's a pretty good indicator that your 'scope has had an easy life, as far as that goes. I bet that control board gives you a lot less trouble than a later one would. Going SMD (crapacitors!) was not a step forward.

mnementh:

--- Quote from: med6753 on May 12, 2018, 06:35:29 pm ---OK gang, put the kiddies to bed. Tell your XYL it's normal to look. Dim the lights. Tek 2465 pron to follow...


Pix1: The top plate with original factory sign-offs. I did not pull the top plate.

Pix2: The PITA squirrel cage fan on the rear. Later 2465A and B used a conventional fan.

Pix3: The main board in all it's glory. Looks nice and clean. No dust or dirt.

Pix4: The infamous U800. This one is the robust Tek die. Later were Maxium die and they were failure prone.

Pix5: The pin thru hole A5 board. Not ONE tant in sight. And it looks like the build date was 1984.

Power supply check at J119:

-15V             -14.997V
+5V digital    +4.984V
+10.00 Ref    +10.003V
-5V               -4.980V
+15V            +14.994V
+87V            +86.945V
+42.4V         +42.500V
-8V               -8.013V
+5V analog   +4.973V

Checked ripple and all in spec. Based upon what I see I think this scope has relatively low hours. But the 2465 doesn't have the EXER05 so I can't verify that.



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That's just delicious! I am quite jealous; of the ones I have, only my own personal 2465 has the sign-offs, and it has had the DC-DC converter rebuilt. Yours looks to be factory snuff.

I know you're dead chuffed to have gotten it for only $60; but really... now that you've seen it, wouldn't you have happily paid the $75?   :-+


mnem
People waste entirely too much time trying not to be screwed out of a few dollars, when our time is by far the more valuable commodity.

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