[time-nuts] Test Equipment

[Magnus Danielson]

Bob Camp wrote:
> Hi
> 
> About 8 years ago a whole lot of companies dumped a whole lot of test gear. Prices dropped rapidly as they did so. It's taken us all quite a while to burn through that pile of stuff. 
> 
> The amazing thing is that as bad as the economy is now, you don't see people doing the same sort of thing. You see oceans of people out of work, but not piles of test gear getting sold off. 

Well, when the .com bubble bursted, it had been preceeded by massive 
acceleration of an instrument-hungry industry. As the bubble bursted, 
both .com companies and otherwise stable companies accelerated by their 
customers suffered. Some folded in and some just barely survived.

This time it was the economy folks that fluked it. Instrument hungry 
industry only suffers indirectly.

Cheers,
Magnus