[time-nuts] Re: HP105B

[Magnus Danielson]

Hi,

On 2022-01-17 08:42, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> Magnus Danielson via time-nuts writes:
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>> No, not for HP.
> Somewhere on one of the HP memory webpages there is a presentation
> where somebody claims the longest lived HP product is a particular
> microwave gadget, I seem to recall it being a directional coupler.
>
There is several such gadgets that very well can be the longest HP 
(/Agilent/Keysight) product, but I raised the one they highlighted 
themselves, and it has a lifetime longer than mentioned for the 105. I 
think one should be careful to separate measurement instruments and 
gadgets, nothing wrong with either, but the former tends to have shorter 
life-cycle than the later can have.

I have a pair of HP200CD, really enjoy them for what they are, but they 
rarely come to use.

Cheers,
Magnus