Repair or Replace? [Was: Repairing Timex]
Yup...
> Am I right in assuming DVM=digital voltmeter?
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Douglas Quebbeman [mailto:dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com]
> > Sent: 18 July 2000 13:34
> > To: 'classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org'
> > Subject: RE: Repair or Replace? [Was: Repairing Timex]
> >
> >
> > > Surely any serious computer hobbyist, especially one who is a
> > > collector or preservationist, has at least the following: DVM,
> > > oscilloscope (even if just an old 5mHZ one to look for
> > things like PSU
> > > ripple/spikes), soldering iron, logic probe, assorted
> hand tools and
> > > perhaps a logic analyzer. These are not things that the
> > average hobbyist
> > > should be unlikely to have.
> >
> > I guess I got spoiled by working at the university and at a local
> > electronics trade school, and then later for a small
> embedded systems
> > firm. I almost always had a scope of someone else's
> available to use.
> > Now I don't, and I regret not picking up a dual-trace 15 or 20mHz
> > scope when I'd see one available, cheap, from time to time.
> >
> > My favorite was the Tektronix storage display scope. Now, I just
> > try to get by using a Rat Shack logic probe and a DVM. Plenty of
> > soldering irons (one Ungar, one generic one-piece, one Wahl), and
> > various hand tools. A manual wire-wrap pen somewhere. A CSC bread-
> > board. A fair selection of components, new and used.
> >
> > -dq
> >
>
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