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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
bd139:
Inclined to agree. The stuff we have now is orders of magnitude cheaper, reliable to the point that repairs are actually comparatively rare and stupidly powerful yet consuming much less power.
I look at a decent SMD board and get the same fuzzy feeling.
The thing I like about the old Tek stuff is the no compromises engineering, the style and the documentation that comes with it. It’s “quality” as in the difficult to define variety mentioned in Persig’s book on the subject. It feels good using and playing with it. Perhaps because there’s less software.
Good point on survivorship bias. I’ve seen piles of broken stuff in my years which is definitely skip worthy and that includes as lot of nice tek kit which had failed.
ChrisLX200:
Philips Research auction - some interesting stuff up for grabs: https://www2.ppauctions.com/auction.php?id=232
bd139:
Thanks for posting that - much appreciated :-+
Edit: ooh lots of toys in there!
bd139:
Just watching this. Another RIFA on camera:
https://youtu.be/y_L1-VQBcvM?t=450
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 16, 2018, 09:54:22 am ---Just watching this. Another RIFA on camera:
https://youtu.be/y_L1-VQBcvM?t=450
--- End quote ---
Yes I saw this one a few months ago, I like watching Simon's videos.
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