VCF5: Nobody got it..!

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Wed Oct 30 01:55:01 2002

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Tony Duell wrote:

> > Taking our cue from a recent long and nearly-immortal thread on
> > Oscilloscopes; sub-Tektronix scopes; sub-sub rack-mount Tek scopes -
> > Marvin and I concocted a nice visual in-joke. I mounted a working
> > RM503 in the rack with my PDP 11/44 and waited for one of the
> > Listmembers to notice it and laugh. And I waited.... and waited....
> >
> > Nobody got it! O well....
>
> I don;t 'get it' either. OK, so you put an old Tektronix 'scope in the
> PDP11 Rack. But Tekky 500s were sitll in common use when PDP11s were in
> use. It wouldn't be a particularly uncommon thing to have near a PDP11
> system.
>
> If I'd seen it, I'd have assuemd you were using it as a vector display
> device (this was not at all uncommon) and would probably have asked what
> DAC you were driving it from (VT11, AA11-K, AR11-K, LPS, whatever). It
> wouldn't have struck me as 'odd'.

I also noticed the scope in the photos. Even though I thought it was abit
curious, I'm afraid I would have likely made the same assumption in that
it was being used as a vector display.

-Toth
Received on Wed Oct 30 2002 - 01:55:01 GMT