Re: A question from the unwashed relative to: I built a TM500 mainframe tester, and updated the design. Someone might find this useful?
I should mention one other thing.? To make the inboard power supplies more possible, and to remove heat from the module, TEK put in a general purpose PNP power transistor and a general purpose NPN
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Harvey White
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Re: I built a TM500 mainframe tester, and updated the design. Someone might find this useful?
I'm also very interested, but pulling the trigger does depend on the approximate price. Dave S.
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Dave Seiter
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Re: I built a TM500 mainframe tester, and updated the design. Someone might find this useful?
Larry With the greatest respect, you're putting the cart before the horse. You have ten committed purchasers, and I am sure many more like me who are waiting to see the price. So why not get a price
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EJP
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Re: A question from the unwashed relative to: I built a TM500 mainframe tester, and updated the design. Someone might find this useful?
Thank you very much, Harvey, for that great historical summary! ¡ª Happy New Year Tom Sent from my iThing, so please forgive typos and brevity.
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Tom Lee
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Re: A question from the unwashed relative to: I built a TM500 mainframe tester, and updated the design. Someone might find this useful?
Ok, perhaps I can clear up a bit of this. Remember that in the 70's to 90's (roughly) there were no (to speak of) FPGA IC's so digital design was lots of 14, 16, 20, and maybe 40 pin chips, depending
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Harvey White
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Re: I built a TM500 mainframe tester, and updated the design. Someone might find this useful?
I have one of the originals, and it is almost certainly "Tek" built as opposed to built from the plans. For one thing, it has a Tek serial number label and silkscreened front panel. Dave Casey
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Dave Casey
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Re: I built a TM500 mainframe tester, and updated the design. Someone might find this useful?
I believe the notch filter could be built in any form factor. IIRC it does not use power from the mainframe, so there's no reason it has to be in a TM-style enclosure. Dave Casey
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Dave Casey
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A question from the unwashed relative to: I built a TM500 mainframe tester, and updated the design. Someone might find this useful?
TM500 - Ok, it fits a very large set of modules. Why? Are there modules that do things that can only be done using a particular module? Yes, I could read the specs for dozens and dozens of the
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Lawrance A. Schneider
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Re: Grid Bias Adjustment on 475A
Good thing! :DLOL!? ?Happy New Year, everyone!? ? ?JimSent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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Jim Ford
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Re: Tek 2465b two probes showing slightly different voltages and phases
We had a 1000-foot spool. Thankfully, the label specified that it was a single cable with no breaks. RG-59 I think. I do not recall what the prop delay was, but it was sort of measurable. I recall we
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stevenhorii
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Re: Spectrum analyzer Tektronix 7L13 on mainframe Tektronix 7603
hi Miguel, really interesting, but first I have to recover the 52.5 MHz crystal to convert the TR503 to TR502. Among other things, the TR503 does not have the logic interface (the one connected to the
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Attilio
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Re: 514 AC Socket
I have the original power cord for my 513D, and it is a 2 pin round bodied "extension" cord, of a type that was popular in the late 1940's. The instruction manual clearly indicated that you must
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Chuck Harris <cfharris@...>
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Re: I built a TM500 mainframe tester, and updated the design. Someone might find this useful?
Note that Jared has updated the main PWB Gerber file and the Instruction Manual file; if you downloaded those earlier, you need to get the new files. Jared and I are discussing how best to order these
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Larry McDavid
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Re: Tek 2465b two probes showing slightly different voltages and phases
Steve I in 2014 did a paper for SMPTE, Belden contributed 100m reels of cables to the project, both TP and coax of 18 different types. We ran digital audio signals with rate to 24.576 MHz and looked
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Jean-Paul
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Re: Grid Bias Adjustment on 475A
Of course! After a few drinks and too much to eat, at 1:30 AM while being a one finger typist, with the computer accepting anything I type, viper sounds like wiper anyway! I am glad I did not type
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Ananda
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Re: Spectrum analyzer Tektronix 7L13 on mainframe Tektronix 7603
https://www.ebay.fr/itm/Vintage-Tektronix-TM503-Power-Module-bestuckt-TR503-DC503-A-k6/133434061050?hash=item1f114a30fa:g:yygAAOSwHoFe368E I paid 500€ for mine without counter -----Mensaje
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Miguel Work
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Re: Grid Bias Adjustment on 475A
I happen to have the board Layouts for 475 and 475A and after a cursory look, they appear to be almost identical. They are, as someone else noted, completely different from the 465, but they do
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Michael W. Lynch
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Re: Rescuing 500s from tube snatchers/scavengers - how much is it worth
No but it will sound fantastic, especially when you use oxygen free Tektronix Gold Plated Probes... Harvey
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Harvey White
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Re: 514 AC Socket
I think the best compromise might be the 3 pole midget twistlock from Hubbell, as it will give me a grounded connection, and the modification will be the lest conspicuous: slightly enlarging round
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Paul
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Re: 514 AC Socket
When I came across this problem (and after an unsuccessful search for my genuine ancient line cord), I took one of those rubbery 3-prong-to-2 prong adapters and, with a sharp knife, cut off the female
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SCMenasian
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