Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[bd139]

Happy 500 pages. I will celebrate with some manky KFC this evening 

[mnementh]

Happy 500 pages. I will celebrate with some manky KFC this evening 

I'm going back to making parts for my 3D printer... with my 3D printer.


mnem
Is that recursive, or exponential...?

[Specmaster]

It was the successor to the Atom, originally called Proton. More memory, different IO and peripherals etc. Plus The Tube which turned it into the original IO host of the first ARM processor which has basically wiggled its way into the fabric of society now.  And that's what happens when you don't start a race to the bottom like Clive did.

The TF930 has an ARM CPU and is made in UK so there's a little bit of an approving nod towards that as a descendent of such things.

Lots of mobile phones also use the ARM processors [emoji106]

From mobile device so predictive text might have struck again [emoji83]

[GeorgeOfTheJungle]

But mine shows 250 

[bitseeker]

*mumblety-mumblepostcountermumblety-mumble*

*mumblety-mumbleserialmultipostermumblety-mumble*

[bd139]

First 250 pages were secret 

[bitseeker]

Secret pages!

George, your posts per page setting might be set higher than the default, hence a different page count. Perhaps you set it to 50 per page?

[GeorgeOfTheJungle]

Yes bitseeker, that's it.

[Specmaster]

Quake FTW

From mobile device so predictive text might have struck again [emoji83]

[mnementh]

*mumblety-mumblepostcountermumblety-mumble*

*mumblety-mumbleserialmultipostermumblety-mumble*

Guilty as charged; and unrepentantly so. 


mnem
Are you serial?

[tggzzz]

And, welcome to page 500!

Or page 250 in my case.

[med6753]

As I sleep the crazies come out!   

(Yes, I work graveyard shift and sleep during the day)

[bd139]

Had my celebratory KFC and feel like I’m going to puke.

Now being sad that there is nothing interesting on eBay.

[tggzzz]

Had my celebratory KFC and feel like I’m going to puke.

Probably not C, or maybe it was C++.

[bd139]

Had my celebratory KFC and feel like I’m going to puke.

Probably not C, or maybe it was C++.

Definitely C#. Very generic, mostly made of collected garbage and is currently wedged in my large object heap.

[Cerebus]

Had my celebratory KFC and feel like I’m going to puke.

Probably not C, or maybe it was C++.

Definitely C#. Very generic, mostly made of collected garbage and is currently wedged in my large object heap.

Sounds more like C♭than C♯.

[tggzzz]

Had my celebratory KFC and feel like I’m going to puke.

Probably not C, or maybe it was C++.

Definitely C#. Very generic, mostly made of collected garbage and is currently wedged in my large object heap.

C hash? I'll buy that - or not as the case may be 

(IRL I couldn't be bothered to learn C#, based on Hejlsberg's talk to us in ~2001, just as it was being released. Never bothered to learn Delphi either, for the same reason - while it might have been an incrementally better mousetrap, I wanted to catch deer and other larger game )

[bd139]

I wanted to catch cash. Which it is very good at.  My intentions in the software sector never were honourable. Get in, take all the money, get out before it goes to shit and retire early from society as a whole and live a modest life of playing with TEA subject matter. So far the plan is working.

Edit: well it would be if eBay perked up a bit.

[Specmaster]

Yeah, prices are going stupid again.

[bd139]

Also supply is drying up. I did have a theory the other day that you usually get an influx of kit a month or so after a cold snap. Probably all the old hams suddenly going silent key 

[Specmaster]

Chilling thought, but might be some truth in it. There is a 6.5 digit Solartron on offer?

[Specmaster]

Heads up, there a 34401A on the Bay with a current calibration for £400

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Agilent-34401A-61-2-digit-bench-multimeter/163115880645

[bd139]

Too expensive. Also doesn’t say who calibrated it.

[Specmaster]

What about keithley 199

[bd139]

Want something newer either with serial port, LXI or USB.

Annoying I can’t find any reviews or info on the TTi 1908P as it’s about right. Could do with an extra digit but I can live without that.