[time-nuts] Bad batch of HP10811's
Tim Shoppa
shoppa at trailing-edge.com
Tue Jan 16 17:15:55 EST 2007
"Greg Burnett" <gbusg at comcast.net> wrote:
> As can be seen in the seller's pictures, those oscillators did not have HP's
> final model/serial number label. As such they would never have left the
> Santa Clara factory through normal marketing channels. Instead they were
> likely purchased at a HP (or Agilent) employee scrap auction or part of a
> scrap lot sold to dealers.
That matches much of the stuff I have bought from this particular
seller. It's an interesting mix of old-timey RF, microwave stuff
from the 80's that seems to be half-built prototypes, etc.
Tim.
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