[time-nuts] Re: 5071B announced, who'd a thunk it?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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Attila Kinali via time-nuts writes:

> The changes were mostly for RoHS and EoL reasons. I.e. replace
> all the components that didn't meet RoHS criteria and replace
> all components that they couldn't get anymore. They tried to
> keep the circuits as close to the original design as possible.
>
> The biggest problem they faced was that all of the original
> designers and engineers have been long retired and quite a
> few had passed away. Quite a bit of the old documentation did
> not make sense or did not match what was actually being produced.
> Tracking down the old designers to ask them questions was a major
> part of the redesign process.

This is pretty parallel to the process Agilent went through to
life-extend the HP3458A 8.5 digit DVM.

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