11 Jan
2003
11 Jan
'03
7:23 p.m.
What is it? Looks like a portable terminal of some
kind. It is for
sale at what I think is a tourist price and the dealer won't even pull
it off the shelf till he sees money.
It's an old logic analyzer. Not worth much these days; I've seen
some given away and others thrown away because no one would take them.
I used one from 1984-1986, and wasn't very happy with it.
Late-model Tek logic analyzers, on the other hand, are quite nice. Aside
from the fact that they run Windows. I get a blue
screen occasionally.
Agilent analyzers run HP-UX, which is rock-solid, and you can
use X to
completely control it from your desktop system or even a laptop [*].
I wonder what OS Agilent will use on their future analyzers? They use
Windows on their Infinium brand scopes, so maybe they'll start using that
in their analyzers as well. :-(
Eric
[*] Yes, you could probably install VNC on the Tek to do similar things,
but it would probably void the warranty. For all the complaints people
have made about X over the years, at least it was designed for network
use from the outset.