18 Jul
2000
18 Jul
'00
1 a.m.
Yup...
Am I right in assuming DVM=digital voltmeter?
a
embedded systems
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Quebbeman [mailto:dhquebbeman@theestopinalgroup.com]
Sent: 18 July 2000 13:34
To: 'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org'
Subject: RE: Repair or Replace? [Was: Repairing Timex]
hand tools and
Surely any serious computer hobbyist, especially
one who is a
collector or preservationist, has at least the following: DVM,
oscilloscope (even if just an old 5mHZ one to look for
things like PSU
> ripple/spikes), soldering iron, logic probe, assorted perhaps a
logic analyzer. These are not things that the
average hobbyist
should be unlikely to have.
I guess I got spoiled by working at the university and at a local
electronics trade school, and then later for a small firm. I almost always had a scope of someone
else's
available to use.
Now I don't, and I regret not picking up a
dual-trace 15 or 20mHz
scope when I'd see one available, cheap, from time to time.
My favorite was the Tektronix storage display scope. Now, I just
try to get by using a Rat Shack logic probe and a DVM. Plenty of
soldering irons (one Ungar, one generic one-piece, one Wahl), and
various hand tools. A manual wire-wrap pen somewhere. A CSC bread-
board. A fair selection of components, new and used.
-dq