18 Jul
2000
18 Jul
'00
12:19 a.m.
Surely any serious computer hobbyist, especially one
who is a
collector or preservationist, has at least the following: DVM,
oscilloscope (even if just an old 5mHZ one to look for things like PSU
ripple/spikes), soldering iron, logic probe, assorted hand tools and
perhaps a logic analyzer. These are not things that the average hobbyist
should be unlikely to have.
I guess I got spoiled by working at the university and at a local
electronics trade school, and then later for a small embedded systems
firm. I almost always had a scope of someone else's available to use.
Now I don't, and I regret not picking up a dual-trace 15 or 20mHz
scope when I'd see one available, cheap, from time to time.
My favorite was the Tektronix storage display scope. Now, I just
try to get by using a Rat Shack logic probe and a DVM. Plenty of
soldering irons (one Ungar, one generic one-piece, one Wahl), and
various hand tools. A manual wire-wrap pen somewhere. A CSC bread-
board. A fair selection of components, new and used.
-dq