| Products > Test Equipment |
| Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread |
| << < (25410/27435) > >> |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: dl6lr on July 20, 2022, 04:12:37 pm ---On unrelated news: The -hp- 4952A with some photos (outside only at the moment), more to come... --- End quote --- Firmware written in Smalltalk, IIRC. Hardware engineers (in Tek and HP) rapidly recognised good languages/environments when they saw it :) |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 20, 2022, 10:49:57 am --- --- Quote from: Specmaster on July 20, 2022, 10:31:21 am --- --- Quote from: bd139 on July 20, 2022, 08:23:40 am --- --- Quote from: med6753 on July 20, 2022, 07:57:37 am ---Predicted high temp today for here is 36 C. What about UK? Gonna hit 40 C again? I can only think of perhaps 3 times that it got to that temp here. --- End quote --- Back to normal now. 27oC peak :-DD --- End quote --- What, its 33C here. --- End quote --- Says 28 peak around you on met office. --- End quote --- I got a peak of just under 30ÂșC here today. My thermometer is shaded and insulated from the building so it is out of the sun and any severe reflected thermal radiation, but it isn't in a Stephenson screen or any proper radiation shield like an official Met Office one would be. A higher reading like Graham's, and mine to some extent, is probably down to direct or indirect insolation. However, I have found that the official Met Office numbers often underestimate the extremes in local hot spots when compared to local pukka Stephenson screened thermometers. |
| Kosmic:
--- Quote from: xrunner on July 20, 2022, 04:54:21 pm ---They say to fry an egg you need 158 Deg F ... --- End quote --- Or a UPS driver ? We need to keep those guys/girls alive so they continue to deliver TEA to everyone. :) |
| Zenith:
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 20, 2022, 05:47:09 pm --- --- Quote from: Brumby on July 20, 2022, 04:22:04 pm --- --- Quote from: mnementh on July 20, 2022, 11:08:02 am --- --- Quote from: Saskia on July 20, 2022, 08:57:02 am --- --- Quote from: mnementh on July 20, 2022, 02:13:52 am --- "Lovey... maybe it's time to buy a farm in upstate New York." ~grand-dad --- End quote --- you are aware of the meaning of "buy a farm" ? --- End quote --- Ehhh... I always heard that said "bought the farm", as in past tense, already dead. Though there is some irony in there; like the song goes: "There ain't nothin' but the dead and dyin' back in my little town..." :o --- End quote --- --- Quote from: Saskia on July 20, 2022, 01:26:39 pm ---Nope. present tense as used in various USAF training videos as for when to eject and making sure you do it early enough to avoid becoming a farmland owner ... --- End quote --- It is my understanding that "bought" or "buy" are both valid - but what is distinctive is the use of the definite article: "the" - not the indefinite article: "a". I.E. "Buy the farm" or "Bought the farm" are indicative of a fatal outcome. "Buy a farm" or "Bought a farm" are indicative of a real estate purchase. At least, that's how I understand it. --- End quote --- That sounds more likely, now that I think of it. mnem My grandparents bought a farm... then they bought another to make it bigger. It took decades, but eventually they both bought the farm on that farm." --- End quote --- To be compared with somewhat dated expressions such as "He's bought it" or "He's copped his packet". We know what they mean in their context, and there's no point over-analysing them. |
| Vince:
--- Quote from: dl6lr on July 20, 2022, 04:12:37 pm ---On unrelated news: The -hp- 4952A with some photos (outside only at the moment), more to come... --- End quote --- Wow, what a surprise ! Didn't think I would see one of these here ! :-+ That reminds me of course that... I have one too... unloved for now :( Well it's not 100% the same as yours, but looks the same. It's a 4951C Got it 2 years ago, offered for free (paid only 10 Euros for shipping), by a guy I bought a Tek 2214 scope from. He showed me this HP protocol analyzer, saying he would never be able to sell it, yet could not resort to throw it away, so he asked me if I wanted to have it. I didn't have the heart to say no, of course. I mean it's HP, and it looked so cute I found, in this compact portable form factor with that lovely keyboard and green CRT screen... and floppy drive ! >:D Plus it can do RS232, and I like RS232. So I thought well I guess I could find a use for it, try to connect it to some TE's serial port, I don't know... was trying to find excuses to justify rescuing it. The CRT is badly burned, like yours with horizontal stripes. But somehow once you turn the instrument on and there is stuff displayed on the screen, the brain doesn't notice as much... Plus, the instrument has a video composite BNC connector at the back for an external monitor, so I was thinking of trying to find a way to hook up a monitor to that. IIRC it's NTSC format so not French friendly. We don't do NTSC over here... but at the time I searched a bit and found there are cheap video converters out there that can take a range of video connectors and standards, and spit out in a number of formats as well. So I thought worse case, these gizmos could save my bacon. Believe it or not, turns out I have no pictures of my unit ! Only pics that the seller put on his ad back then. I did apparently however, take 3 pics of the mini tear down I did of the pod. Oh, forgot... other than the burned screen, it's also missing the interface cable that lets you connect the pod to the instrument ! :palm: so... not much use. Somehow on mine, just like yours, as you can see, the space bar is heavily yellowed but all the other keys are fine.. strange. |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Next page |
| Previous page |