Silicon Valley pioneer William Hewlett dead at 87 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Jan 2001

On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 07:50:23PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
...
    Granted there's more plastic in them than there
used to be, but HP
 still makes the best test equipment that money can buy, as far as I'm I
can't speak for the HP, er... Agilent scopes, but I've never had any
bother with my secondhand Gould OS1100A. It looks like it's around 15-25
years old, 30MHz, delayed sweep, CRT, IEC-style power connector (same as the
ones used on the IBM PC and many other machines), etc. It takes a while to
warm up and for the damn trace to stop jumping around, but other than that
it's a great scope. Anyone got a manual (service or otherwise) for this
ageing dinosaur? The timebase calibration is a bit out.