14 Apr
2005
14 Apr
'05
8:54 p.m.
On 4/14/05, Roger Merchberger <zmerch at 30below.com> wrote:
Nowadays, I doubt you could find many students there
that could *spell*
oscilloscope, let alone tell you what one does... :-(
You are almost certainly correct, but I'll say this... they couldn't
take my job from me. Basic knowledge of how to use an oscilloscope
(i.e., how to hook it up and get a meaningful trace on it) is a
requirement for my job, and they _do_ ask candidates if they "know how
to use basic laboratory instrumentation such as VOMs and
oscilloscopes".
For the record, I didn't learn in school either; I learned at a job I
started the summer before I entered college (on the same Tek 465 that
now sits inert in my playroom ;-)
-ethan