Re: Decline, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] new File called App notes
That is all well and good, but my experience predates all of this.? I dscovered it as far back as the 1940s.? A look at people like Sarnoff and Napoleon should prove that greed is nothing new. We
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Bob Albert <bob91343@...>
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Re: Decline, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] new File called App notes
Yes, indeed.? Why do we need faster and faster hardware?? Slower and slower software, of course!? The problem is that software is getting slower and slower faster than hardware is getting faster
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Jim Ford
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part identification
Can anyone tell me if 1820-0757 and 1820-0759 are the same part. They both cross to 1DC4-0903. This appears to be a HP internal number. Thanks Glenn --
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Glenn Little
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Re: Decline, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] new File called App notes
I'll hold their hands behind their backs, to make sure you get the job done easily.
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Andy ZL3AG
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Decline, was Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] new File called App notes
This didn't just happen at random. This, along with another major problem, software bloat, can be traced to just about the same time and the same type of attitude. Sometime in the 1970s, I think it
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Dave McGuire
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Re: Agilent 8753es Option 11 and TDR Measurements...
John, That's become a way of life in the Los Angeles area with the TV re-pack going on and a lot of FM antennas having to be relocated and re-tuned - even in the daytime hours.? :) Burt, K6OQK
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Burt K6OQK
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Re: new File called App notes
First, it was William Hewlett, a fine engineer who was affiliated with Terman, who helped him design the 200 oscillator. I must say that I saw a pattern in my professional life.? Everywhere I went,
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Bob Albert <bob91343@...>
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Re: new File called App notes
"HP, as it was then, remains the best company I ever worked for" FIFY, in case someone glances over that sentence and thinks HP2020 is anything like the fabulous company it was 40+ years ago.
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Andy ZL3AG
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Re: new File called App notes
True. They don't make 'em like they used to. I've worked for quite a few companies that were much greater places to work in bygone days... Jim Ford
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Jim Ford
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Re: new File called App notes
Thanks Paul, I was afraid I was teaching my grandmother to suck eggs. Its not from being a newby so much as being an oldby. I grew up on -hp- Ap Notes and Bench Briefs (which are not underwear for the
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Richard Knoppow
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Re: new File called App notes
Sad but true. :(? The HP name went with the computers, printers, servers, etc back in 1999, and Walter Hewlett fought it, but money talks.? Then the Agilent name (no great loss there; a former
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Jim Ford
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Re: new File called App notes
Hmm, I don't think I've ever seen any Wiltron app notes. Got any pointers? (or maybe a tar file?) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
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Dave McGuire
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Re: new File called App notes
I'm sure they don't. It's often said, and I've seen this borne out in company after company, that management and marketing types generally don't even have to know what the product is. And the higher
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Dave McGuire
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HP-3421A Service Manual is required.
There is one HP-3421A that does not turn on (+15, -15, + 5V is dead). The measured value of C708 where oscillation is occurring inside the capacitor is 495(0.205). C708(25V, 470uF) was replaced. And
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Re: Jacks added to 6623A System PSU
Well... I haven't seen (doesn't mean they don't exist)... but, I haven't seen the ones stamped out of sheet steel lately, and hardly the ones stamped out of brass ever. But Pamona makes what they call
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Roy Thistle
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E4418B modification information for the stand by battery
Hi all Can anyone help me with the modification information for the E4418B to stop the stand by battery from draining I know it exists as I had it a few months ago / last year but unable to find in my
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Paul Bicknell
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Re: new File called App notes
I suspect that most at Keysight have little or no idea of the legacy that came before them as Hewlett Packard and Agilent. They most likely couldn't care less. Stuart K6YAZ Los Angeles, USA
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Stuart Landau
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Re: new File called App notes
Well written application notes are some of the best educational tools available; whether they are instrument specific or more general. I prize the General Radio, Boonton, Wiltron and Hewlett Packard
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Stuart Landau
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Re: Agilent 8753es Option 11 and TDR Measurements...
Burt, Good distance resolution on TDR usually requires wide bandwidth, so you might upset some folks with significant out of channel power on a live antenna. --John
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John Gord
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Re: new File called App notes
I expect it's more legions of dramatically underpaid (but willing) people in India. File sent off-list. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
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Dave McGuire
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