8 Jul
2016
8 Jul
'16
7:27 a.m.
On Jul 8, 2016, at 12:15 AM, Brent Hilpert <hilpert
at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
So a friend tells me there's a maybe-abandoned HP 8510 Network Analyzer in the
hallway of the engineering building of the univ. he works at.
I presume it's a unit like this, as he says it's over a metre tall:
http://www.ece.lsu.edu/emdl/facilities/network%20analyser.html
I figure its a little too far large and too far away from my needs to take it on, but out
of curiousity does anyone know offhand what processor they used in these?
(I haven't looked in depth online).
Cursory guess is its mid-90s technology.
That sounds right. I have an HP catalog from 1993, which lists very similar bits, an 8510
display unit and the 8515 and 8517 S-parameter test sets. So I'd guess this is a
slightly later followup model. List price of that day, FYA, $36500 for the 8510C, and
$41400 for the 8515A (slightly more for the 8517 due to the higher top frequency).
Something that's going to be obvious to some but possibly not to all: "network
analyzer" is short for "vector network analyzer", an electronic component
measuring device. It has nothing to do with computer data networks.
paul