12 Apr
2005
12 Apr
'05
6:41 a.m.
Joe wrote...
I can't believe that you don't already have
one if you want one. They
show up all the time around here. I've passed up a lot of the simple ones
(Atlantic Research, etc).
Simple, because I haven't had a specific need for one. It's more of a
"someday I'll pick one up just because they are neat", so I haven't gone
out
of my way to pick one up. For hooking up a terminal, they generally aren't
required for troubleshooting that. Now when I get to hooking up a serial
link between my HP2000 and the PDP-8E with custom transfer code on each end,
then I'll probably get more agressive about finding one.
I feel about datascopes much like people probably feel about logic
analyzers. Often you can find the problem with other simpler tools, but when
you have an odd problem you can't get your head around, hook it up and the
problem will usually stare out at you very clearly from the screen :)
Jay