6 Mar
2005
6 Mar
'05
8:06 p.m.
On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 16:51:23 -0600, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
That's right, tools are on-topic if they're
being used to repair
old computers, unless the tools run Windows. :-)
Unfortunately, there has been this trend lately for multi-channel
digital O-scopes to be Windows-based. I had to rebuild one at Pole
last year that contained a commodity motherboard, and bog-standard
hardware except for an HP DAC card that included circuits to talk to
the front-panel buttons, and it only ran Windows 98. Fortunately, we
were able to get instructions and the necessary files that once we got
the base OS working on it, we were able to turn it back into an
oscilloscope.
Doesn't bode well for the future...
-ethan