Art of Electronics 3rd edition? (probably the billionth time this has been asked here)

I've seen a good dose of such exposure, or doled it out sometimes. Like when I explained to a seasoned professor why transmitters do not work the way he taught it, could not, and why.

Looks more like a Trinitron tube set on its side. That's what my HP54110 has, except not on its side.

Then I also want the "slight wobble while tile steamer runs" option :-)

And the authentic "burnt phosphor zones" option. That costs extra.

I was just photographing some 4-trace waveforms for a customer. I'm helping him write some control scripts for a digital delay generator application. He can't tell me what he's actually doing or we'd both go to federal prison. Anyhow, the 4-color waveforms from our TPS2024 photograph beauteously. I like to photograph the screen, as opposed to dumping to a USB stick or whatever. It's easier, and it just looks authentic. I can festoon the perimeter with post-it notes and photograph them, too.

John

This guy reduces it to 4 words:

Oh, and don't forget the two faint lines from the wires that hold the Trinitron mask on larger screens. I thought I had burn-in until someone from Europe explained to me that it's from those wires.

Look at the bright side: The you wouldn't have to pay for health care anymore :-)

I like USB much better. My scopes and other instruments can deliver nice-looking graphs in under 10kB whereas the usual photo-JPEG can easily gobble up 50 times more. It really matters when you have to send stuff to someone with a portable device and not in reach of telco nets much above the data rate of bongo drums.

Never played with one of those, but I actually like Windows based scopes. Keeps them coming across my bench for repair. (virus, trojans, and corrupt file systems.)

I like them but then I never met a DSO I didn't like, except for HP 5450X scopes. When Tek was shipping 50K points of memory in their DSOs as an

Ok, I'll bite.

On a sunny day (Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:03:31 -0700) it happened Joerg wrote in :

I think in the new system you will have to pay when you get out for the bed and breakfast + dinner + all other things + cost of guards.

No, the guards get fat salaries and pensions from the taxpayer because of a give-away by previous governor. That is one of the reasons why CA is in such a financial mess.

LeCroy was furnishing Los Alamos their 4208 Camac time-digital converter modules, for nuclear weapons development. They had 50% DOA rates and took six months to get repaired, and half of the repaired units were DOA. A guy from the lab asked me if I could design a replacement, so I did. Word must have leaked, because the next time the lab went out for bids, LeCroy cut their price in half, to kill my possibility of getting the order. We got it anyhow; LeCroy was disqualified on technical grounds... fairly technical technical grounds, as I recall. Downright pickey, in fact.

John

Windows-based equipment has an advantage for me as well. It shifts so much "functionality" to the software side that people sometimes fail to find their circuit problems. Because the scope or analyzer simply fails to. Then I come with my old stuff or dig some gear out of the client's basement, and whoopdidou.

Several times this has led to an immediate expedition by tghe client. To EBay, other auctions and boat anchor dealers.

Yabbut, he's a Jesus Freak.

Thanks, Rich

Logic analyzers are evil. They push people into the hack-and-debug mode of thinking, the way most programmers operate.

John

I frequently meet people who tell me they are "allergic" to mathematics. Many times I have questioned them a little to see if I can discern why they are like that. Often, people simply do not seem to have a predilection for it, but in many other cases, it comes down to a particular math teacher they didn't get along with.

Considering the condition of the American educational system nowadays, I feel really fortunate to have had "the best algebra teacher on the planet", which is how I've always thought of him. :-) He loved teaching, and really cared that every student was able to learn everything in his course. I wish everyone could have teachers that good.

Jay Ts

Thanks - I think that was one of my favorite off-topic post of all time.

Jay Ts

I have mine on a "turn on every six months" schedule so it's NiCd doesn't die. Because I haven't used it in years. But if I need to find a glitch in someone else's uC code it can be an indispensable tool. "Why is that register over yonder overwritten every two seconds?" ... "What? Oh, wait ... s..t!"

Yep. One inspiring teacher is all it takes. Mine was Evelyn Truchovesky... 8th grade Algebra (57 years ago :-)... built such an interest that I started coming early morning to Junior High School to tutor others. That's where you learn... by teaching. ...Jim Thompson

Yep. That certainly is the truth!

It helps to be losing your hearing, like me... you can say, "Huh", while thinking up an answer... like, "Damn! Did the cleaners shrink another dress" ?:-) ...Jim Thompson