[time-nuts] Basic question regarding comparing two frequencies

[J. Forster]

Probably yes.

There are also a number of lower cost instruments (just above consumer
grade)like HF-VHF VNAs that implement much of the smarts in a PC on the
market.

As to high end instruments w/ USB or Ethernet, I'm not so sure. The USA is
doing less and less hardware development, so instruments are not being
bought in anything like the quantity as in the past.

FWIW,

-John

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> J. Forster wrote:
>> I very much doubt that the majority on this list have major govenmental
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>> corporate funding and shop from the new Agilent catalog that just came
>> in
>> the mail.
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>> As a result, I'd guess almost all the commercial test gear in the
>> posession of listers is from 1970 to 2000. That says GPIB and almost
>> nothing else. A very few instruments did use dedicated ISA, LSI-11, or
>> RS-232, but the numbers are tiny.
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>> The fact is that with GPIB you can cobble up a system to almost anything
>> from simple to complex very quickly.
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> But over the next few years, I suspect you'll see more and more of it
> coming onto the surplus market.  My fond hope is that my daughter will
> be able to capitalize on it.
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