On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Eric Smith wrote:
  Tony Duell wrote about the HP 1630 logic analyzer:
  the fact that the pods can only be
 disconnected after rmeoving a cover plate means that the pods are unlikely
 to get spearated from the unit and lost, for example. 
 Nope.  You underestimate how determined resellers are to destroy the value of
 what they're reselling.  I don't know why they do it.  These do in fact show
 up routinely without pods. 
Seconded.  Every single one I've run into at hamfests and swap meets is
missing the pods, software and documentation.  Clueless &)(*^)^s
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