21 May
2004
21 May
'04
7:35 p.m.
You must not have tried anywhere I had access to!
I'd love to get my
FWIW, I didn't hear about this 547 (although I would not have been able
to take it -- they are rather to heavy to ship across the Pond :-))
About all that would stop me from grabbing such a
thing would be
outrageous shipping charges (or, I suppose, if it's physically so huge
The 547 is not that big, but it's not small either. Regard it as a bench
instrument, not a portable (for all it has a carrying handle...).
I couldn't fit it into my workshop - and it'd
take more than I've ever
seen in a 'scope to do that).
Be careful. Tekky made a thing (I believe) that was a 'scope in 2 6' rack
cabitnets. One of them had a set of bays for 7000-series plug-ins, and a
special storage tube mounted vertically in the rack. The other contained
a PDP11 (I want to say 11/40). The incloming signal was stored in the
tube, then read out using a second electron gun, digitised and fed to the
'11 for processing. In the fays before ns ADCs this was about the only
way to do it.
-tony