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The worst products from HP and Tektronix.

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vk6zgo:
The Tektronix 650 series Picture Monitors were seriously dire.

The Tek 520 Vectorscope was OK when it worked, but when it got a bit old, it was a nightmare to work on.

The RM529 Waveform Monitor was good when it was new, but was compact & full of tubes, which was a poor combination when it came to reliability.
Add this to fairly short lived CRTs, there is little wonder why we sighed with relief when the 1481R came out.

HP?
I always found their 'scopes a bit more "fiddly" to use, though I quite liked the 180 series.

jonpaul:
Tektronix 2710, 2712 portable Spectrum Analyzers, horrible membranes panel, bad interfaces design, easy to blow out inputs mixer

Jon

joeqsmith:

--- Quote from: Neepa on January 14, 2023, 08:25:30 pm ---The usual low hanging fruit with HP would be the 16500 Logic Analyzer. Featuring that crap "touch" screen using a IR sensor grid. And then only featuring a single rotary knob for its user interface aside from that.

HP must have sold a keyboard two weeks after each sale of a 16500. :-DD

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 :-DD :-DD :-DD
I liked the 16500C.  The system still drove like their earlier products.  It was that last system I looked at from Keysight that looked like they had fired all their software engineers, hired all new managers with bright new ideas how things should work and never even knew what the product did.  It looked like softheads were the targeted users. 

 
For Tek, that 78nn DSO.  Nice when it would stay running but more down time than up time.   

For HP, I can't think of anything.  May explain why most of my home is fitted with HP.   
 

EEVblog:
Can we include the HP name changes?  ;D

Tomorokoshi:

--- Quote from: wn1fju on January 14, 2023, 01:12:41 pm ---...
The HP (Germany) 811x pulse and function generators are very nice - when they work. 
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I bought a couple 8011A pulse generators with the counter options for a specific project. I also have an 8010A dual-channel pulse generator. Both are from HP Boblingen in Germany. While they are constructed quite differently from each other, they are each assembled very strangely. The 8011A style is troublesome to work on and the user interface is one of the worst. Completely unusable without actually monitoring the output with an oscilloscope. The 8010A is actually somewhat elegant, except that all the connections between the many circuit boards are through harnesses that use silver-plated contacts to gold-plated pins. The silver tarnishes to black and basically disconnects.

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