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Re: My $165,000 VNA

 

Yeah...The "Good Old Days"... My memories are of a 10-Ton semi trailer test
van with an HP 8510 and scads of other high-end equipment driven by an
HP9000 mini. And also my first scientific calculator circa 1977, a T1-59,
so named because it had the same computing power as a 1959 IBM mainframe.
AND, you didn't need the "Cake-Box" removable platter 300 MB CDC hard
drives for storage, just a tiny magnetic strip. I just saw the printer for
it a few days ago and I guess I'll find the calculator too, somewhere,
someday...?

On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 1:04 AM Bill WA4OPQ <wa4opq@...> wrote:

Just joined the group, I have a lot of reading to do.

But this reminds me of 30 years ago when I operated an Automatic Network
Analyzer at Hughes Aircraft.
I'm pretty sure it was an 8409C, but I can't confirm that on Google. It
did S11, S21, S12 and S22 from 110 MHz to 18 GHz
And If my memory serves me (ha!) the two rack unit was $120,000 and the
computer was $45,000. It looked similar to the attached photo.

And now I hold a low freq equivalent in my hand.
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