[sdiy] Simple Scope Question

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"Cornutt, David K" <david.k.cornutt at boeing.com> wrote:
> From: Magnus Danielson [mailto:cfmd at bredband.net]
>> There is a certain look-and-feel aspect which is hard to 
>> translate into text.
>
>A bit off of the original thread, but related...
>
>It's a truism where I work that people who first learned on
>a Hewlett-Packard scope will struggle with a Tektronix scope,
>and vice versa.  I learned on Tektronix; I'll admit that the
>first time I encountered an H-P scope I had to adjust my
>mental circuits a bit to use it, but I didn't think it was
>all that bad.  But the best EE I've ever met here swears
>by Tek scopes and refuses to touch an H-P because he says
>it takes him days to get his brain re-accommodated every
>time he uses one.  Thoughts?

It reminds me of the HP calculators "reverse polish notation"
vs. TI calculators...  Both are quite good, but if you learned
RPN, you mess up with a TI.



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