13 Dec
2002
13 Dec
'02
2:32 p.m.
We used to have a few of these - we called them "Barbie" scopes
because everything had a cheap plastic feel, vinyl smell and gaudy
neon colours. They would crash often and do a scandisk...
The only useful thing was the ether connection to save files,
capture to a net share, or print. The whole scope consisted of
a modified motherboard and a few PCI capture cards .. blech!
I'll take a 16500C series over this any day!
h
>From: "Eric Smith"
<eric(a)brouhaha.com>
>My biggest gripe with Agilent is that their recent instruments such
>as the Infinium series oscilliscopes run Windows. I don't use the
>things myself, but I've heard horror stories from friends using them.
>It's a shame that they didn't use Linux, or xBSD. Some of their
>earlier instruments such as logic analyzers actually acted as NFS
>and X clients, but the networking capabilities of Windows are a huge
>step backwards.