Article View: sci.electronics.design
Article #1919Re: Agilent Oscilloscope - ripoff or rebadge?
From: Joel Koltner
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 23:55
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 23:55
29 lines
3244 bytes
3244 bytes
"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote in message news:LtNSj.8236$iK6.5469@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com... > But I repaired it for two reasons. Walmart would certainly have chucked it, > meaning more waste in the landfills. Then the drive would have been 60 > minutes round trip. The repair took 15 minutes. The diagnostic instrument > was a toothpick. Many of us who don't work from home pass by a Wal*Mart every day, Joerg. :-) But you've convinced me to take a look at mine -- keeping it out of the landfill is a good rationale. > That's exactly the point, *interested*. IMHO only a person with a great deal > of curiosity will become a good engineer. Yeah, I agree -- I'm just not convinced that that curiosity has to imply they sit around designing or repairing "low tech" devices anymore. You see plenty of teens today building fancy microcontroller boards, sophisticated programmable logic designs, and writing quite impressive software, and many will make the "good engineer" grade -- it'll just that our industry is far more diverse today than it was 50 years ago. I probably am a bit hypocritical here in that I've written in the past that I think it's more impressive to see a college kid at an engineering expo design their own, e.g., 318MHz 1.2kbps BPSK transmitter out of discrete parts than just plop down a complete 2.4GHz 1Mbps Bluetooth (FHSS) module with RS-232 interface, though. :-) ---Joel
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<fSNSj.118241$6i4.23710@en-nntp-03.dc1.easynews.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-in-01.newsfeed.easynews.com!news-in-02.newsfeed.easynews.com!core-easynews!easynews.com!easynews!en-nntp-03.dc1.easynews.com.POSTED!not-for-mailReferences:
<481aed02@dnews.tpgi.com.au> <481aef47$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> <481b023b$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> <481b06ff$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> <ICHSj.76029$Uf4.29948@en-nntp-08.dc1.easynews.com> <fb1638c1-9e26-45fb-8a31-d1779f26c9e6@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <Y4JSj.153529$ng7.69423@en-nntp-05.dc1.easynews.com> <npom14hhrk3vhemsr1hlthi127h3s1no82@4ax.com> <481b7137$0$19807$ecde5a14@news.coretel.net> <FJKSj.76905$Uf4.67909@en-nntp-08.dc1.easynews.com> <LWKSj.8203$iK6.2303@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com> <RMLSj.141441$Gv.61794@en-nntp-07.dc1.easynews.com> <HVMSj.8228$iK6.4910@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com> <waNSj.128204$fB7.114445@en-nntp-06.dc1.easynews.com> <LtNSj.8236$iK6.5469@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: 112d1e,71b45677395e982 X-Google-Thread: 103407,71b45677395e982 X-Google-Attributes: gid112d1e,gid103407,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!news-in-01.newsfeed.easynews.com!news-in-02.newsfeed.easynews.com!core-easynews!easynews.com!easynews!en-nntp-03.dc1.easynews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgroups@yahoo.com> Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,aus.electronics References: <481aed02@dnews.tpgi.com.au> <481aef47$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> <481b023b$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> <481b06ff$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> <ICHSj.76029$Uf4.29948@en-nntp-08.dc1.easynews.com> <fb1638c1-9e26-45fb-8a31-d1779f26c9e6@56g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <Y4JSj.153529$ng7.69423@en-nntp-05.dc1.easynews.com> <npom14hhrk3vhemsr1hlthi127h3s1no82@4ax.com> <481b7137$0$19807$ecde5a14@news.coretel.net> <FJKSj.76905$Uf4.67909@en-nntp-08.dc1.easynews.com> <LWKSj.8203$iK6.2303@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com> <RMLSj.141441$Gv.61794@en-nntp-07.dc1.easynews.com> <HVMSj.8228$iK6.4910@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com> <waNSj.128204$fB7.114445@en-nntp-06.dc1.easynews.com> <LtNSj.8236$iK6.5469@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com> Subject: Re: Agilent Oscilloscope - ripoff or rebadge? Lines: 33 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Message-ID: <fSNSj.118241$6i4.23710@en-nntp-03.dc1.easynews.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@easynews.com Organization: Forte Inc. http://www.forteinc.com/apn/ X-Complaints-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly. Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 16:55:42 -0700