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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
Cubdriver:
--- Quote from: xrunner on July 13, 2022, 11:13:28 am ---Working on a restoration marking label for the hp 3476A. Coming along still want to do more work on the red and black marks. I have restored most of the missing red lines and worked on missing black areas. Frankly when it's printed the correct size as I have it any flaws won't be noticed as it is now. The plan is to make the tan background a transparent area. I also have to obliterate all the markings I tried to restore with a sharpie. Maybe some will overlap OK.
The reason they all got rubbed off is the way hp made this side panel. It can be closed if you didn't realize it. When it slides "closed" two fuses pop out and hold it, and they are a pain in the arse to get pushed down again so the panel can be closed (or opened pick your word). You find yourself fumbling and pushing with all fingers and looking for tools to push the fuses down at the same time.
Meh - not the greatest example of hp engineering out there. :-\
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Coming along nicely! That particular part isn't exactly the apogee of their engineering prowess. Shame they couldn't at least have gone with engraving to better hold the markings, though I suppose that would have added a LOT to the cost of the mold and screen printing was decreed sufficient for the price point. They probably also weren't anticipating that nutcases the likes of this lot would still be playing with them nearly five decades after they were manufactured.
-Pat
bd139:
--- Quote from: Vince on July 13, 2022, 02:38:25 pm ---Just got an e-mail from some subcontractor company saying he is interested in my profile, but not sure if that's a scam or not because the name of this company " Care Technology Consulting " rings no bell and their web site fails to load, with that weird error below that I have never seen before.... could people try to connect and tell me if they manage to get a website, or do you get the same error as I do ?! :-//
Thank you very much.
If they are legit but can't even get a website to load yet still advertise it in the e-mails they sent out to people, I am not sure I would want to work for them... the HR dept. would probably not pay me because " Sorry our payroll S/W fails to load, we apologize for the inconvenience... ".
http://www.caretechnologyconsulting.com/
EDIT : forum fails to display the thumbnail pic or let me link / embed it in this message... it only lets one download the picture that's all. Oh well.... here is what the error says :
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home/caretech/www/wp-includes/pomo/entry.php on line 61
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Care technology consulting really cares about technology so much that they can't fix their shitty web site.
So yeah I wouldn't bother.
bd139:
--- Quote from: med6753 on July 13, 2022, 02:20:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 13, 2022, 12:38:21 pm ---On cars. MOT pass. No issues. Dealer did it. Did some additional checks on it, topped up the oil and washer fluid and cleaned it inside and out. Latter was all free :-+. They send you the report via email with full video of them doing it linked.
Full £54.85 but worth it IMHO over cheaping it out for a tenner saving.
Still done bugger all miles. Just hit 35k on a 2014 car.
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$65 USD for an annual inspection? Fucking robbery. NYS annual inspection is fixed at $21 USD assuming no repairs to make it pass.
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Yeah but if you drive a piece of trash they just register it out of state so there's no charge so the whole system is pointless there. So $21 is robbery :-DD
Cubdriver:
--- Quote from: xrunner on July 13, 2022, 02:11:15 pm ---Regarding the hp 3476A DMM, if you're interested in what hp was thinking to make such a meter, I attached an explanation of what they were thinking about. It came from the Hewlett-Packard Journal, Feb 1977, p.21
(zipped pdf too large to attach)
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Here's a pic of the custom IC:
And an overall one of the entire board:
It is affixed solder side up to the top part of the clamshell enclosure.
-Pat
bd139:
They did away with those packages in the late 70s. Note later model.
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