[time-nuts] HP 5360A History?

Richard (Rick) Karlquist richard at karlquist.com
Wed Apr 13 21:07:42 UTC 2016


On 4/13/2016 12:28 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote:

> that even with a $10K price they sold, either Bill or Dave were advised to
> cancel the project due to its growing cost and complexity but
> decided to keep it going in that HP would learn about designing with logic.
> I have an internal HP logic design class notebook and it looks
> like the 5360A might have been the seed for the class.

At that time, the Santa Clara division also made logic analyzers,
and would go on to invent signature analysis.  So the 5360 could be
considered "next bench" material.  Nowadays, they call this "synergy".

Rick



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