[time-nuts] Basic question regarding comparing two frequencies

jimlux jimlux at earthlink.net
Sun Jul 25 02:48:17 UTC 2010


J. Forster wrote:
> I very much doubt that the majority on this list have major govenmental or
> corporate funding and shop from the new Agilent catalog that just came in
> the mail.
> 
> As a result, I'd guess almost all the commercial test gear in the
> posession of listers is from 1970 to 2000. That says GPIB and almost
> nothing else. A very few instruments did use dedicated ISA, LSI-11, or
> RS-232, but the numbers are tiny.
> 
> The fact is that with GPIB you can cobble up a system to almost anything
> from simple to complex very quickly.


But over the next few years, I suspect you'll see more and more of it 
coming onto the surplus market.  My fond hope is that my daughter will 
be able to capitalize on it.








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