Making me homesick. I remember when the Signetics then Phillips fab was the only thing on the north side of town. You could go from one corner of town to the next in about 20 minutes. Was in the NM Air National Guard, worked on A7 electronics warfare systems. Equipment like the HP 651B was considered great gear by the DIY crowd. Bill Gates tried to get a loan from a Albuquerque bank to start what became Microsoft and was turned down. I bet the genius who did that said oops, made a bad call.
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As said: Light Light Light!!! It gets real old to mix-up 1k and 10k resistors. Or not see the stray hair-wire behind the terminal.
A chair or stool that WORKS for your back, your bench, and the way you work. I've suffered for years and really can't bench-work these days. Do not be ashamed to block-up or cut-down legs on bench or stool. Even if you get "OK", get up and stretch several times an hour.
A chair or stool that WORKS for your back, your bench, and the way you work. I've suffered for years and really can't bench-work these days. Do not be ashamed to block-up or cut-down legs on bench or stool. Even if you get "OK", get up and stretch several times an hour.
Hello DJN and Centurion- I'm from ABQ, born in 1958. Yes, the town has grown considerably. Retired from Sandia Labs in 2015 and moved to Pasadena to take care of the Little Old Lady from Pasadena. Once she's gone, we'll most likely move back to ABQ. We moved into my wife's family home. State income taxes and property taxes are killing me...really puts a burr under my saddle that CA taxes my pension which I earned in NM!
I now work part time at a university and keep active with the audio electronics hobby. Happy to say, there are many youngsters who love tube audio, some of them get very interested when they see some of the old gear I have at the lab. We've made some point to point tube amps/preamps and some speakers from plans/schematics from DIY Audio. A couple students have bought the Tube Lab boards and assembled nice amplifiers.
I now work part time at a university and keep active with the audio electronics hobby. Happy to say, there are many youngsters who love tube audio, some of them get very interested when they see some of the old gear I have at the lab. We've made some point to point tube amps/preamps and some speakers from plans/schematics from DIY Audio. A couple students have bought the Tube Lab boards and assembled nice amplifiers.
Those look very nice and tidy. When the flicker of the florescent light get to me, I'll go for those.
I have an old school one with really high magnification.
I really thought I would have a problem with the heat but I like it now without the high humidity of the northeast. Good group of audio guys as well.
maybe, but you have a function generator by its label.
good source of square waves and triangle waves, old school way of testing with the eyes on an oscilloscope.
they also tend to go low in freq which is otherwise harder to get on a real oscillator.
distortion is higher, typically 0.1% or so. Generally they are square wave generators that then are shaped into sine and triangle, hence the high distortion. Level tends to be flat as well. No real setting time as its usually digital inside. (or maybe its triangle first, I forget)
My HP3312 Function Generator is one of my longest pieces on my bench in continuous use since the early 80's
Handy
Cheers
Alan
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