Re: How to find patents for HP equipment
McDonald's secret sauce is, I am sure, Bob's Big Boy thousand island dressing. The Big Mac is very similar to the Big Boy except the Big Boy has more flavor. Bob's was a favorite hangout when I was in
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Richard Knoppow
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Re: How to find patents for HP equipment
USPTO does offer PDF copies of patents but you are right that Google has better search facilities. There is also another search engine which has European patents on it but I am not good at working it
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Richard Knoppow
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Re: How to find patents for HP equipment
Exactly. I have somewhere (in my storage somewhere) an anniversary book from Kodak Research Labs. It talks about how difficult it was for the labs to communicate with the manufacturing division
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Richard Knoppow
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Re: HP 3048A software without floppy disks
That's one of several ways to run it, yes. They came out with a DOS version, it's called "3048A option 301". [eye roll] They've been around awhile, but they work great. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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Dave McGuire
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Re: HP 3048A software without floppy disks
Yes, you can run it from a single volume, like a hard disk or a directory on an SRM server. I run mine via the latter. In my lab I have an HP9000-382 running HP-UX from a SCSI2SD board, with an SRM
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Dave McGuire
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Re: HP 3048A software without floppy disks
The last time I used a 3048A based system I was about 25years younger ? if I remember correctly the system software ran of a HDD on a HP Workstation , later on they swapped the computer to a HP
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: HP-8753E Options Activated
Have you checked the supply voltage level for the EEPROM ? if the supply voltage is below a certain level than the device is write protected , this is a safety feature that allows designers to use a
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: HP 3048A software without floppy disks
"Lothar baier" <Lothar@...> writes: Thanks. That software's great, but unfortunately it's not complete. In particular it does not allow me to perform the calibration procedure. Matt
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Matt Huszagh
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Re: HP 3048A software without floppy disks
Check this PN3048: HP 3048A Phase Noise Analyzer Software for Windows (ke5fx.com)<http://www.ke5fx.com/pn3048.htm> Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows Sent:
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: HP-8753E Options Activated
The switch in both cases was not faulty. I think the write protect was activated, but as to the reason, I cannot say for certain. Every other aspect of the analyzer seems to be functional. I also
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Rich Miller
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HP 3048A software without floppy disks
Hello, I asked this question as part of another question on VintHPcom (/g/VintHPcom/message/7448). However, I believe people in this group are likely to have familiarity with the
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Matt Huszagh
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Re: HP-8753E Options Activated
That is indeed strange , the only thing I can think of is that the switch is faulty or that somehow the EEPROM has a write protect enabled Sent from
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: How to find patents for HP equipment
And McDonald¡¯s secret sauce and KFC¡¯s ¡°11 herbs and spices¡± ? Steve
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Steve - Home
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Re: WTD: Filter capacitors for 8662A PSU
One thing to watch out for with modern replacements is the ripple current rating - one benefit of the large Compulytics was that they could dissipate more power. Modern replacements may have a lower
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Harold Foster
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Re: How to find patents for HP equipment
Hi Pete: There are a number of ways. In general there are two search engines.? The USPTO and Google. The good news is that Google has used Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and so you can search
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Brooke Clarke
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Re: How to find patents for HP equipment
A classic example of trade secret protection is the formula for Coke. Patents expire, but trade secret protection lasts as long as the secret can be kept. Tom
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Tom Lee
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Re: HP-8753E Options Activated
Yes I threw S400 SW8 - I was never able to get the load to work. In both CPU¡¯s with License Activation Keys it would report ¡°56 OPT COR FAIL¡± when attempting to load it. Trust me, if there were
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Rich Miller
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Re: How to find patents for HP equipment
To be clear, once an application has been made there is considerable protection until the patent is issued. As someone mentioned there are lots of patent applied for notices on manufactured items.
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Richard Knoppow
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Re: How to find patents for HP equipment
In all reality china and foreign students have changed the game quite a bit , back in the days Development was done in the US , most if not all of the design engineers were US Citizens or hailed from
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Lothar baier <Lothar@...>
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Re: HP65 software and memory strips?
I have an HP67 that I think can read those. I have wanted for some time to restore the card reader by replacing the rubber parts. No time right now, but if you get no takers to save those, I would be
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Steve Hendrix
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