"Jim Thompson" wrote in message
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But I've had a bias against hp equipment for at least 30 years... a
whole lot of it was crap or became crap within one year. When I ran
the Phoenix Analog Design Center for GenRad I forbade the purchase of
hp 'scopes.

But their scopes always took a back seat to Tek, so if they didn't want
to flush money down the toilet, they would not have bothered to invest
the money to make and sell a scope that was competetive with Tek.

However I used a HP 1741 back in '79, and I thought it was a solid
scope. It was a blessing after rubbing my fingers raw from turning the
timebase and other knobs 100's of times a day on a Tek toob scope. The
HP probably saved the company tons of money on electric and air
conditioning costs by getting rid of those old Tek toob scopes, which
used a half a kilowatt of power all day long.

...Jim Thompson
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