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On 4/5/2024 3:49 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> On a sunny day (Thu, 4 Apr 2024 12:20:19 -0400) it happened bitrex
> <user@example.net> wrote in <660ed343$0$1258343$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>:
> 
>> My most useful old machine dollar for dollar is my 8012B pulse generator!
>>
>> <https://imgur.com/a/2GaSZVq>
> 
> Nice, real components...
> 
> 
>> $50 "not working." It was just a burned-out pilot lamp and dirty controls.
> 
> mm 50 dollars,
> even today with people using dollars for wallpaper,
> buys you a nice pulse generator on ebay..

It cost $1700 USD in the 1987 catalog, about $4500 equivalent today!

> 555 timer works fine too
> Or use sox in Linux for all sort of audio, including sweeps:
>   https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/howto-sox-audio-tool-as-a-signal-generator.4242/
> or just use a Raspberry Pi as signal generator:
>   https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/newsflex/download.html#freq_pi