Serial analyzers (was Re: VAX 11/730 quickie)

[Curious Marc]

I was wondering if I should add a 4952 to my HP collection. It's tempting, these are cute machines. But except if I am using synchronous RS232, I was not sure what I would getting that a laptop with a good terminal emulator and a serial port would give me. Can you convince me otherwise? What do you guys use it for?
Marc

> On Feb 22, 2016, at 3:58 PM, Jay West <jwest at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> I've always eyed the 4952... being as my penchant is HP and much of my test
> equipment is same-vintage HP gear (I'll give a vote for the 1631D logic
> analyzer, combo LA and digital scope - the scope is sorta poor, but handy -
> the LA is great for what I work on).
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> However, I spent a significant portion of my career in front of a serial
> analyzer so I'm pretty familiar with them [...]
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