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From: john larkin <jl@650pot.com>
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On Fri, 24 May 2024 22:31:52 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

>john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 May 2024 11:43:42 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 24 May 2024 07:17:55 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, 24 May 2024 11:29:37 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard
>>>> <pommyb@aol.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, 23 May 2024 07:08:05 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thu, 23 May 2024 09:33:11 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard
>>>>>> <pommyb@aol.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 10:52:40 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 18:10:58 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard
>>>>>>>> <pommyB@aol.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 07:54:30 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 13:58:13 -0000 (UTC), jim whitby
>>>>>>>>>> <news@spockmail.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 14:36:00 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Who says I don't? Unlike you, an odious little narcissist, I don't feel
>>>>>>>>>>>> the need to show everyone here how clever I am.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Spoken like a true liberal.
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> When things don't go your way... start name calling.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Exactly. Cheap insults are, well, cheap.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Indeed.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 9djf3jlovr2bmpkn03e18237njtcorg9rj@4ax.com
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> That was, in my opinion, a reasonable observation. Nasty humorless
>>>>>>>> people DO usually design nasty electronics. Or no electronics.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Your hypocrisy is breathtaking!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> You started this off topic thread in which you posed a question
>>>>>>> completely unrelated to the subject. I answered your question
>>>>>>> honestly but your narcissism prompted you to take it as an insult
>>>>>>> presumably because I hadn't massaged your ego. You leapt in feet first
>>>>>>> with your stock insult and when I retaliated you and your fan club
>>>>>>> rounded on me for having the audacity to call out one of the worst
>>>>>>> offenders for insults.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> If you want to see SED cleaned up you should take a leaf out of your
>>>>>>> own book and stop indulging in off topic rubbish.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Like active filters?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Do try not to be so stupid. As you well know I was referring to the
>>>>> subject of the current thread being off-topic. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Of course active filters are a suitable topic for discussion in SED,
>>>>> but when you include a stupid question in your own off topic thread
>>>>> you should not throw around insults when you get an answer you don't
>>>>> expect. Were you hoping for a "yes please" type of response?
>>>> 
>>>> Obviously. But nobody is interested.
>>>> 
>>>> Are you here to discuss electronics, or to cackle and insult? Lately
>>>> SED is full of clucking old hens who probably haven't owned an
>>>> oscilloscope in decades.
>>> 
>>> If ever.
>>> 
>>> Joe Gwinn
>> 
>> I got my first scope, a Heathkit, when I was in junior high school. It
>> was I think 5 MHz, all ac-coupled, repetitive sweep, uncalibrated,
>> pretty primitive.
>> 
>> I later got a summer job in a university physics  department and got
>> to use a Tektronix. I was amazed. That 535 cost as much as a Chevrolet
>> at the time.
>
>I first used one when I was 10 or 11, in my sister’s freshman physics lab.
>(Physics 110 at UBC, probably fall 1970.)
>
>I remember that it had delayed sweep , and wasn’t anything too fancy
>otherwise, so it was probably a 522 or something like that. (The lab
>session was about learning how to use the scope, which was pretty cool.)
>
>Cheers 
>
>Phil Hobbs 

There were a couple of plugins that did things that no scope does
today. The diffamp with switchable high and low bandwidth, and the
astounding differential comparators.