Some late fifties HP measurement equipment available. ( Switzerland )

[Curious Marc]

Wow. Beautiful nixie counter, and 10MHz with tubes to boot! Impressive. The kind of stuff that made HP famous.
Marc

> On Sep 3, 2018, at 12:34 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 2018-Sep-03, at 8:39 AM, jos via cctalk wrote:
>> the following late fifties HP equipment is available in Switzerland.
>> Stored in less than ideal conditions, but seem otherwise quite OK.
>> 
>> Feel free to forward to more fitting mailing list / fora.
>> 
>> Not my equipment, my only interest in this is saving these from the scrapheap.
>> 
>> 
>> HEWLETT PACKARD TIME INTERVAL UNIT 526B
>> HEWLETT PACKARD ELECTRONIC COUNTER 524C
>> HEWLETT PACKARD DIGITAL RECORDER 560A
>> 
>> ( Possibly a second HP524(b) , unsure of this )
>> 
>> I will forward email adresses tio the seller, up to you to complete.
>> He expects to raise some money, unsure if realistic or not.
> 
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> 
> I think I've made this comment before when this type of equipment has been mentioned on the list,
> but as it's being mentioned again:
> 
> The 524C is a tube-based NIXIE-display digital frequency/period/event counter,
> the 526B is a plug-in input module for the 524,
> and IIRC the 560 is a printing recorder for use with the 524.
> 
>    http://madrona.ca/e/edte/HP524C/index.html
>    http://madrona.ca/e/edte/HP520/index.html
> 
> In my opinion, it's a reasonable acquisition for a computer museum as an example of
> tube-based digital technology from which the 1st generation of computers were built
> (seeing as how tube-based computers are a tad difficult to come by these days).
> 
> If you're an HP collector, the 520 series was HP's first step into digital technology.
>