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Re: TDS5xx, 6xx, & 7xx Series scope history
In 99 .9% of the cases the first serial number
B010101. The last four digits is the sequence number starts at 0101. If there's a major design change and I mean major sometimes as serial numbers will jump does something like B50001. But I never saw a standard or a spec seeing how to do the major jumps most companies like HP would have rolled it and added like a b or a c to the end of the model number On Mon, Apr 2, 2018, 8:39 AM EricJ via Groups.Io <wyzkydd2358= [email protected]> wrote: Thanks for that, pretty cool. My two 754's were originally delivered to |
Re: 7B53A broken switch (mixed mode switch)
Max I don't know how to contact you one on one but if you need another
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7B53A a let me know On Mon, Apr 2, 2018, 3:55 PM unclebanjoman <mmazza@...> wrote:
I got a 7B53A in decent conditions. It seems in a good working state with |
Re: Desk Top Publishing ...After this lets take this off line
Your right Libre Office (LO) is a pretty good tool for this work I just don't do enough to become very proficient in using it.??? LO is similar to MS office.??? I too usually open a new DRAW document for inputting page images from the scanner.
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It is also handy for putting larger schematics, that someone scanned to two or three pages, back together.??? Import the images from the .pdf file to LO and paste them into a e.g. 11x17 page. Move the images around until everything lines up as well as possible and save to a new pdf,??? almost magic. Bob. On 4/4/2018 8:55 AM, Leslie Austin wrote:
I produce the occasional document which I can then print out, and I use Libre Office. However, I always open in DRAW,??? resize, crop, edit etc, then copy it to Writer. It will normally require re-sizing to correct "print area". Obviously pure text just goes straight into Writer. When completed, I export to PDF.??? It ALWAYS comes out perfectly and prints perfectly. I have an old HP Duplex printer, so that speeds things up. |
Re: Your opinion on using other people's work
Chuck Harris
I used to love it when a customer would insist that
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I use vi at their shop. Since I was paid by the hour, it would easily add a few thousand bucks to the cost of the job by slowing me down. The thing that turned me off vi was the way you had to flip-flop between modes. I found that through a typing error, or forgetfulness, I could easily get into command mode, and completely destroy several hours of work by touch typing text into the command mode window. I have never found it all difficult to find a copy of jove (a light weight emacs clone) for any system I have ever worked on... including windows. -Chuck Harris Dave Daniel wrote: Although vi is ancient technology, one can sit down at almost any system running a |
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Hi Phil,
thank you for your helping to repair my 7B53A's slide switch. I write this private message from within groups.io web interface because when I try to reply directly to your e-mail, it bounced back to me with the justification that my IP address is blacklisted. ?!?!? I've already alerted your att.net (AT&T) mail server and my ISP. In the meanwhile thank you for your attention and your help to repair my 7B53A. Max Mazza (mmazza@...) P.S. I'm from Italy, near Venice. |
Re: Desk Top Publishing ...After this lets take this off line
Chuck Harris
If you are Linux savvy, XSane works very well.
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It will OCR, and depaper the result if you wish, though OCR works best with 300-600dpi scans... You can add the table of contents by using JPDFBookmarks. -Chuck Harris Robert Hay wrote: Dave, |
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I produce the occasional document which I can then print out, and I use Libre Office. However, I always open in DRAW,? resize, crop, edit etc, then copy it to Writer. It will normally require re-sizing to correct "print area". Obviously pure text just goes straight into Writer. When completed, I export to PDF.? It ALWAYS comes out perfectly and prints perfectly. I have an old HP Duplex printer, so that speeds things up.
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Sometimes it is more convenient if for example I have scanned an old A5 document, to recreate it as A5. To do this, I scan each half page separately,ready for assembly. If it is say 12 pages, I take three pieces of paper, put them together, fold them over and put staple on the fold,? giving me a 12 page booklet. I then put an icon on each side to give me the layout of the complete booklet. Remove the staple, and I now have three templates to make it easy and foolproof to make the whole booklet. Some pages need to be "on the wrong side", and half of them "upside down". A confusing job made easy courtesy of Libre Office. Les. On 04/04/18 15:18, Robert Hay wrote:
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Re: tektronics 2465b 400mhz nvram battery info
Chuck Harris
The manual has the entire procedure.
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-Chuck Harris toby@... wrote: On 2018-04-04 8:31 AM, Chuck Harris wrote:You all are going to a lot of work to save calibrationI think this is an excellent point, but are calibration procedures |
Re: Desk Top Publishing ...After this lets take this off line
On 2018-04-04 10:18 AM, Robert Hay wrote:
Dave,If you're dealing with page images only, then you can use the free tiff utilities (tiff2pdf) or Tumble to produce a PDF from a set of TIF images. No need for LibreOffice etc as intermediary. Another tool to look into is Scantailor: (If you're doing more than a small amount of this then I recommend getting a good ADF scanner (like a used Fujitsu, which is what I have): Fast, good quality, scans both sides.) --Toby
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I have used the version of Paperport that came with one of my scanners, but it won't run on my newer computers. I scanned and OCRed printed material with little troubles.
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Re: Desk Top Publishing ...After this lets take this off line
Bob
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Lets take this off group and I will send you a more detailed reply in a private email later today ... at the moment I am baby sitting granite counter-top install guys :-P -DC manuals@... On 4/4/2018 10:18 AM, Robert Hay wrote:
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Re: Your opinion on using other people's work
Although vi is ancient technology, one can sit down at almost any system running a UNIX variant and be able to edit files, which is important if one is a sysadmin working on different systems which have IDEs installed at the whim of the system owner. vi is, however, a text editor and not a desktop publishing tool.
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Several of us old timers ended up using vim ("vi improved") and/or gvim (GUI-based vi improved). These editors can be set up to have language-based color coding, cross-file linking and even be used to invoke build (compile/link) scripts an many other assists. My primary experience with "desktop publishing" was to create engineering specifications. After struggling with various people's ideas of what tools should be mandated over several decades, I finally found myself in a position to "mandate" the tools myself. I wrote (in a specification :)) that all "released" specs would be in PDF form, and that an engineer could whatever tool he or she wanted to create the document from which the PDF was created so long as that tool was available to the larger engineering community. We ended up mainly using Word or OpenOffice for smaller specs and Framemaker and Visio for large, multi-chapter specs. This worked out well. DaveD On 4/4/2018 6:06 AM, Mark Wendt wrote:
On 04/04/2018 02:15 AM, Dave Voorhis wrote:In the technical and scientific world, there is only one choice: LaTeX.Emacs isn't always available you're recovering a machine and it may have partitions not available. Emacs is good for progamming (xemacs is even better), but I still prefer vi for doing system tasks. |
Re: Desk Top Publishing ...After this lets take this off line
Dave,
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I've been looking for some easy to use scanning tools for small jobs.??? Anything over 10-12 pages I would probably asked you if you were interested because Artek will do a beautiful job and I would just get frustrated with the whole process. For 5-10 pages of something specific to a particular instrument there may be only a few people interested and not much market for you folks. So, for a few pages of reference material what's the best combination of tools.??? I have a portable Brother scanner that works pretty well but every now a then skews the page a bit.??? And, some pages seem to need to be re-sized to fit 8 1/2 x 11 or a page will get broken into two pages for some reason.??? Some of this is probably getting enough experience to know how to adjust to what the scanner does. I have been scanning pages to an image file, opening it with Libre Office and then saving it to a PDF file.??? If a particular page doesn't look good that page can easily be re-scanned and added into the Libre Office file.??? But there seem to always be some little hiccup to deal with and troubleshoot.??? About that time I realize I need to something else, anything else. Bob. On 4/3/2018 6:46 PM, Artekmedia wrote:
There are desktop publishers and there are desk top publishers...what are you mainly planning on doing? More??? clean up scans like the 1S1 or write a book? Is your personal time valuable ( i.e. are you willing to spend money on software that makes the task easier and faster) |
Re: tektronics 2465b 400mhz nvram battery info
On 2018-04-04 8:31 AM, Chuck Harris wrote:
You all are going to a lot of work to save calibrationI think this is an excellent point, but are calibration procedures documented and possible for end users? --Toby (I haven't looked into that question yet, but I do own a TDS460A & others that are pre-digital)
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Re: tektronics 2465b 400mhz nvram battery info
Chuck Harris
You all are going to a lot of work to save calibration
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data that ceased to be relevant probably more than a decade ago. If the scope had something important, like firmware, stored in the NVRAM I could see spending the effort, but what you are talking about doing is surprisingly similar to looking for ways to change a new fender into a dented and rusted out duplicate of the old fender on your car... so you can replace the old fender... -Chuck Harris Claimer: I trade in discount calibrations, so my opinions are clearly biased in favor of doing calibrations... ADas via Groups.Io wrote: HI MIcro, |
Re: Your opinion on using other people's work
On 04/04/2018 02:15 AM, Dave Voorhis wrote:
In the technical and scientific world, there is only one choice: LaTeX.Emacs isn't always available you're recovering a machine and it may have partitions not available.? Emacs is good for progamming (xemacs is even better), but I still prefer vi for doing system tasks. Mark |
Re: Your opinion on using other people's work
On 04/03/2018 10:09 PM, Fabio Trevisan wrote:
Folks!Fabio, That was typed tongue-in-cheek as an answer to a document writer. However...? I was a unix/linux/VMS sysadmin for nigh on 30 years. And vi was my go to text editor for all those years when programming, writing scripts and those kinds of things.? No, it doesn't give you the GUI stuff that the modern word processors have, but when all you have is a command line access to a server, it probably is one of the best text editors for those kinds of purposes.? Once you get used to the ins and outs of all the commands, it's a pretty powerful text editor. Mark |
Re: tektronics 2465b 400mhz nvram battery info
HI MIcro,
Yes i soldered temporary wires between pin 1 and 2 of cpu. The cpu is 6802 on all the tek 246x oscilloscopes despite the label "sc67127p". Dont be afraid the cpu assisted copy of data is much less likely to go wrong then if you desoldered the old nvram and then tried reading it, which often fails.. Cheers Das |
Re: tektronics 2465b 400mhz nvram battery info
Ciao Das thanks for the reply.
Maybe we can succeed in the adventure with your great help Now the procedure is more clearer to me. My cpu is SC67127p may be fine anyway ? is same 6802 ? The jumper between pins 1 and 2 on Cpu I do it with 2 wires or a metal tip ? I also ask if the procedure is invasive if I destroy something or not. thank for collaboration ciao mirco |
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