11 Feb
2009
11 Feb
'09
1:01 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Feb 11, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
A little bit earlier than the 80's even, the radio museum here has two early
Nicolet digital scopes, one of which at least is ca. mid-70s, it has a fairly
early 8080 in it.
I had a brief opportunity to check it out before the switching power supply
decided to go poof. Rather coarse display by modern expectations, I don't know
what the sampling rate or actual bandwidth was. Didn't seem like it was going
to be very useful so I haven't made much effort to repair it.
The first commercial digital scope I'm aware of is the HP 5480 digital signal
analyser, from 1969 IIRC, uses core memory(!). (I have one that's languishing
inoperative for lack of a manual.)
Hmm. Yeah, I've never heard of Nicolet either. Interesting find!
Wow, never heard of them? Dating back to the 80s, they've made
(and still make, as far as I'm aware) some of the finest digitizing
oscilloscopes that money (a LOT of it) can buy. They also made quite
a bit of CAMAC equipment.