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Ok Lothar, that one was aimed directly at me, so I must respond! I do lots of things without expectation of pay. I have coached recreational soccer for many years. I help out with one of the local

Financial interest makes sense if you start a company and want to make money, if i would have the intension to start a business selling replacements for obsolete parts than for sure i would go broke

I used the stratix because i had a eval board for it on hand, for cost reasons i would not recommend this family ! Cyclone3 are pretty good and Lattice has low cost FPGAs with build in SERDES for

First off, I have no dog in this fight, but it seems to me used laptops, especially lower performance ones, are dirt cheap (>$100) these days. Why not a simple interface that uses the parallel or USB

True, within limits. There is a big difference between working on something with real upside potential and supporting something an insrument which is reaching the end of it's service life. The

I have read with some amusement and disappointment the responses you received from your offer to make gears for people. I personally thought it was a great offer and as soon as I need any gears I'll

HP must have been an amazing place to work in in the 1970s. It seems they did a lot of R&D in those years. I'm extremely grateful for their old service notes - more information and explanation than

there are several companies that sell surplus LCD for about $100 or less, earthlcd is one example, changing to LCD would also have the advantage that you get some additional function like printer

HP call the board that controls the storage tube persistence, erase etc the storage assembly. I have been thinking of replacing the tube with and LCD - but that would cost more than the SA!! Unless

One thing that comes up more and more often from people on this newsgroup is the .... im not doing anything unlessi get paid for it ! dont get me wrong i like money as much as anyone else and im

I have a degree, but the truth be known I learned at least 95% of what I know by playing on the bench, taking things apart, modifying radio gear, building my own test gear when I was a kid, and then

Hello to all, Lots of discussion about restoring CRTs lately. FYI, I have a BK 465 CRT tester/restorer available. Good conditon, with manuals and cabling. Never was able to sell it at the

Building a good YIG based synthesizer has its challenges i admitt, first problem is that usually YIGs are not as good in phasenoise to begin with, next thing is that you have to design your drivers

Hmmm sounds kinda familiar, im going trough this cycle every few years, usually when im employed i packrat stuff especially microwave parts, machinery and test gear to build up my lab until my wife

Hmm, I see I left some room for that to be taken the wrong way. When I said, "Eventually I feel compelled to return to the workbench, where I spend a lot of time and money answering questions that

i have the same problem john deling with freeloaders that dont want to crank their heads or geet b their hands dirty maybe we should go on strike for them

Heh... I tend to go for a couple of years at a time without doing much electronics work at all, selling all my gear on eBay and going back to the real world to rebuild my finances. Eventually I feel

one problem i find is that the market for stuff like this is soo small that it isnt worth my time. i cant afford to spend alot of time on things that have very little

Keep in mind that there's no benefit to digitizing post-detected trace signals (x and y) at rates beyond the bandwidth of the widest video filter, typically a few MHz at most. And if you digitize the

you might want to try ebay, another way is to find the connectors or strip them out of a old unit and then make a PCB board for it, all you need is the spacing for the board. If you dont have any