[rollei_list] Re: Testing
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 23:17:27 -0800
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From: "Don Williams" <dwilli10@xxxxxxx>
To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 9:00 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Testing
I worked for -hp- mid 1960s throught 1970s when Bill and
Dave still ran it. It was the best outfit I ever worked for
and if my mom had not gotten very sick I would probably have
stayed forever. I worked a little with the 2100 series
computers which were used with the automated network
analysers I worked on. I learned as much as I could on my
own. I also remember the prototype 9100 at our office. I
used to stay until the janitors kicked me out playing with
it. I also bought a model 35 hand held calculator at an
employee discount. A burglar got it.
I have some -hp- instruments of that era now, all work to
better than specs.
They no doubt make very good computers but are
completely out of the measurement business. I am having
trouble remembering names tonight and am drawing a blank on
the company who made medical electronics that -hp- bought
but I have somewhere an early EKG machine that I was given
because it was obsolete. I think I took it because it was in
a nice wooden case and had some enormous magnets in it for
the recording galvanometer. I suppose I had some plan to
adapt it as a chart recorder. I worked mostly on microwave
and RF instrumentation and especially spectrum analyzers.
After all this time I still can't afford a 141.
--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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