[Test-Equipment] Re: [TekScopes2] Re: [hp_agilent_equipment]Landmark Instruments ?

[wolfbob]

I don't think so at least in the 50s and 60s. We built all 
of our productionline test equipment. The HP/Tek stuff was 
either highly modified and integrated into specific test 
stations or remained in cludges in the engineering depts. 
These were general types in the early days of voltmeters, 
signal gens and scopes and were not suited for operation by 
production test personnel. In the 50s I worked "down the 
street" from HP and consulted with them a lot as I was the 
manager for test at Sylvania microwave tube lab. BTW, I 
consulted for and from them as I was instrumental in their 
development of their first spectrum analyzer, made them 
klystrons for the 614 and 616 sig gens and they helped with 
my TWT testing. At one time I was HPs largest single 
equipment buyer at $500K/yr. This was just after the 
industry was busted for giving out freezers and fur coats. I 
got some great lunches, however.

WBob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
To: <TekScopes2 at yahoogroups.com>
Cc: <Wiltron_instruments at yahoogroups.com>; 
<GenRad at yahoogroups.com>; <AILtech at yahoogroups.com>; 
<Test-Equipment at mailman.qth.net>; 
<hp_agilent_equipment at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 10:15 AM
Subject: [Test-Equipment] Re: [TekScopes2] Re: 
[hp_agilent_equipment]Landmark Instruments ?


> You're right. I'd pretty much missed that.
>
> However, my question is really directed at those 
> instruments that made a quantum improvement in the daily 
> life of a working engineer.  Hence, I'd choose a 453 over 
> a 465, because the difference in
> convenience of a 453 over a 535 is much larger than the 
> difference between a 465 and a 453.
>
> Thanks very much,
> -John
>
> ==============
>
> arthurok wrote:
>
>> remember   that  most  of   teks  and  hp  money  was 
>> made selling
>> instruments   used  for  eqipment  servicing    and 
>> production line  activities
>> "not    the  engineering  dept."
>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>   From: J Forster
>>   To: hp_agilent_equipment at yahoogroups.com ; 
>> Test-Equipment at mailman.qth.net ; 
>> Wiltron_instruments at yahoogroups.com ; 
>> TekScopes2 at yahoogroups.com ; AILtech at yahoogroups.com ; 
>> GenRad at yahoogroups.com
>>   Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 1:50 AM
>>   Subject: [hp_agilent_equipment] Landmark Instruments ?
>>
>>   I'd like people's opinions on what they think are 
>> really landmark
>>   instruments in the era between about 1955 and 1995, the 
>> kind of things
>>   that made a really big difference on a working 
>> engineer's test bench..
>>
>>   I'm thinking of things like the Tek 7000 scopes and the 
>> HP 8410 VNA.
>>
>>   Thanks,
>>   -John
>
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