Thanks for the welcome med. I am fine with the broad discussions I have read here so far; it is always entertaining and often informative.
I am not sure I really fit in here after all (kidding). I see all these examples of Victorinox knives and every one of them has a corkscrew, and mine does not. I have one just like tautech's example of the Forrester Large, except mine has a philips screwdriver in place of the corkscrew. That screwdriver is the one necessary thing that did not come included in the Whisperlite stove maintenance tool.
nixiefreqq, thanks for looking into that biner. I can only assume it dates from the '60s. Trouble is now I have found a website for selling vintage climbing equipment. I can resist since I am not going to risk my life to gear of unknown condition & safety.
Back in university days, one of my engineering classmates shaved his head bald to save on the cost of shampoo in order to direct all (and I mean ALL) available funds to climbing gear!
We had a group of about 8 of us all from the same engineering program (spread over 3 different graduation years) who climbed regularly; some still do.
I got my start in a highschool electronics class. At the end of the year, the teacher gave away all the gear, since he was retiring and the course would not continue. I grabbed some components, but was not bold enough to grab a soldering iron or test equipment. That was opportunity lost. My interest waned during university partly because there was no easy enough way to experiment putting electronics and a computer together. The discovery of hiking, rock climbing and mountain biking also took over. I started working in aviation equipment as a systems engineer and had the opportunity to work in a lab with Tek scopes, DMMs, custome test rigs and enivornmental testing. These days my work is all regulatory and gear is for hobby use.
Recent acquisitions broughtsnuck into the house include a Rigol DS1054Z, HP-E3610A, HP-33120A and a free 19 inch rack found in a snow bank.
I am looking to add in the near term a couple of bench DMMs, a 13.8VDC power supply approximately 300W for radio use, another 13.8VDC power supply for car telemetry simulation (ISO-9141 & KWP2000 to start). Medium term would involve adding something like a nanoVNA. Give me 5 minutes after I post and I will think of something(s) to add. When I first saw a picture of a nixie clock, I thought that was pure art. Now that I know that there is functional TE with nixies, even better (and that it would be a mighty shame to ruin good TE to steal nixies).