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Re: 3577A multiple problems - update
As for RAM versus ROM problems: it might be that the firmware is copied from ROM to RAM before it is started in earnest. I have worked on a design like that in the dim past. Reason for doing this: 32
By Wilko Bulte · #149013 ·
Re: 3577A multiple problems
Hi Peter, I haven't had time to follow all the emails regarding your 3577A because I'm quite busy at the moment, but I'm sending you this email anyway for information, it's a copy of an email I sent
By Yves Tardif · #149012 ·
Re: Source for HP System 2 case cover retaining screws
Hear, hear! I would participate in a group buy. In addition, has anyone a recommendation on re-threading the receiving end of these screws? I have done HELICOILs but containing debris from drilling
By W6KX · #149011 ·
Source for HP System 2 case cover retaining screws
I'm trying to find a source for the countersunk, odd-shape screws used to secure the sliding top and bottom covers of Hewlett Packard System 2 cases. The screws that are held in place with a circlip
By Guy Dunphy · #149010 ·
Re: Perpetual licence fees - what's the best option?
Yep...the frog in a pot on the stove.....clueless too! Ren¨¦e
By Ren¨¦e · #149009 ·
Re: 3577A multiple problems - update
Well, here's something interesting.? I wondered if the unit would run without the fast processor card installed, and it does. Of course, the analyzer doesn't actually function, but it also doesn't
By Peter Gottlieb · #149008 ·
Re: 3577A multiple problems - update
What is a "BUS ERROR" anyway? Guessing this is triggered from the BERR/ input to the MC68000 going low.? A bunch of conditions seem to trigger this but it looks like attempts to write to ROM or
By Peter Gottlieb · #149007 ·
Re: Perpetual licence fees - what's the best option?
Yup, waste of time. Peter
By Peter Gottlieb · #149006 ·
Re: Perpetual licence fees - what's the best option?
Whoa.. /me cancels download -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
By Dave McGuire · #149005 ·
Re: Perpetual licence fees - what's the best option?
On 12/15/24 14:31, Frank Mashockie via groups.io wrote: > This also goes back to right to repair and the lengths companies from all industries are going to 'protect' IP.? Which I still can't believe
By Dave McGuire · #149004 ·
Re: 3577A multiple problems - update
Could be pretty much anything on either of the two largest cards in the analyzer.? Plus stuff not on those cards.? And yes I agree it smells like a ROM going bad.? I wonder if I could pull them,
By Peter Gottlieb · #149003 ·
Re: Perpetual licence fees - what's the best option?
I ran into the "special service software" issue with a newer R&S transceiver.? Even the ability to swap major assemblies is limited unless you have the special software, which isn't available outside
By Peter Gottlieb · #149002 ·
HP 8753A - Want to create/modify user cal kit (using front panel interaction) so that 85033D is resident in storage RAM
On HP 8753A, I'm having trouble using front panel interaction to modify an existing cal kit standards to yield a user cal kit (planning 7MM modified to clone 85033D). Looking for help, hand-holding,
By David Feldman · #149001 ·
Re: 3577A multiple problems - update
Bad trace memory should not give illegal instruction traps. Assuming the trace memory is solely used to store data, and is not (also) used to store executable code in. Unless, of course, something is
By Wilko Bulte · #149000 ·
Re: 3577A multiple problems - update
Buss errors and illegal instructions smell like bad RAM, ROM or maybe both. Or a bad bus transceiver maybe. Can be other things too, anything dodgy in address decoding, address bus or data bus can
By Wilko Bulte · #148999 ·
Re: Perpetual licence fees - what's the best option?
In far off days I used to do the Unix ports for Minitab (back when there was a Unix market). Those were simple days, an executable + some supporting files :-) I always liked Minitab, it was a pretty
By Paul Amaranth · #148998 ·
Re: Perpetual licence fees - what's the best option?
This also goes back to right to repair and the lengths companies from all industries are going to 'protect' IP.? Which I still can't believe there were people in this group arguing for company
By Frank Mashockie · #148997 ·
HP equipment
Hi all, As rarely happens there is some HP equipment (an 8712 vna and a hp3586) for sale here in Australia. See the https://vkclassifieds.net.au/ website. Regards, Waz
By Warren · #148996 ·
Re: Perpetual licence fees - what's the best option?
As one of the memebers of the comittee on purchase strategies at the university where I worked, I was able to add a rule that: No instrument with other than perpetual licenses for the features
By Ulf Kylenfall · #148995 ·
Re: Perpetual licence fees - what's the best option?
[email protected]> wrote: Have Keysight actually gone as far as disabling features you have paid for unless you pay an annual fee? I would never buy an instrument like that. I am somewhat more
By Dr. David Kirkby, Kirkby Microwave Ltd · #148994 ·