[time-nuts] Chinese Scopes

[Michael Blazer]

Does anyone remember the HP 1980B Digital O'scope?  This had to be the 
worst scope UI ever.  There was only one knob and buttons for everything 
else.

Mike

On 4/16/2012 7:04 PM, J. Forster wrote:
> IMO, a good UI should be entirely obvious. I learnt to use a Tek 503 in
> about 1963. Everything after that has been obvious, until the
> 'puter'scopes.
>
> The problem with nested menus is knowing where the dang thing you want is,
> or worse, that some setting or other even exists.
>
> Have you explored all the pull-down menus in your browser or Word, or,
> worse, Excel or AutoCAD? I know I havn't. An Adventure game is far less
> opaque, IMO, and the game is designed to decieve.
>
> -John
>
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>> That simply is not the case with the Rigol scope. I was able to use it
>> without opening the manual.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/16/2012 4:33 PM, Scott McGrath wrote:
>>> Chinese scopes and menus
>>>
>>> In modern asian culture it's a highly valued skill to be able to
>>> memorize menu selections which are deeply nested And many asian designs
>>> actually increase the number of menus to cater to this
>>>
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