[Elecraft] I wonder how many folks have had buyers remorse on a K3/K3S purchase?

[Jim Brown]

On Mon,8/3/2015 2:22 PM, Marc Veeneman wrote:
>   But I spent the past 40 years working with computers and I don't want one in my shack.

Hi David,

The irony here is that the things you find troubling are all provided by 
microprocessors and DSP within the radios and displays. So you DO have 
computers in the shack, I think I count at least four, and there's a 
separate microprocessor in the SVGA board doing it's own higher 
resolution FFT of the K3 IF. So that makes five. :)

As a side story here -- in 1982, I bought a very expensive, very 
advanced piece of audio instrumentation called a TEF Analyzer. It was 
made by Techron, a division of Crown, and it was dedicated to Time Delay 
Spectrometry. It contained three Z80 microprocessors -- one generated a 
swept oscillator to excite the sound system, a second a swept oscillator 
for analysis of the received signal, and the third operated as a 
computer to control the other two and provide a user interface. The user 
interface was written in SBASIC, so that advanced users could write 
their own code, and I once took a class to learn the fundamentals of 
doing so.

The operating system was CP/M, similar to DOS, and it ran DOS programs 
like word processors, databases, and spreadsheets, and I used it for all 
three functions in my small business. It was my second programmable 
computer -- my first, about four years earlier, was an HP41.

73, Jim K9YC