[sdiy] Simple Scope Question

[harrybissell]

I use an OLD Hewitt Packard at home... and Tek and Fluke/Phillips at
work
I like them all.

We have two newer Hewitt Packard scopes at work, which are so much SH!T
(imho) and I refuse to use them. They have the most obtuse, @ss backward

counter-intuitive user interface... if I'm LUCKY enough to acquire a
trace I'll
probably just lose it by moving a control to pan or zoom (without
hitting 'stop'
explicitly) ane the DAMN thing will retrigger and acquire SQUAT !!!
Thanks
HP.  Don't plan on seeing my business anytime soon !!!  What were they
thinking ?
Have the designers ever USED a scope ???

(now hopefully that qualifies me as a 'good ee' as well but whatever :^)

H^) harry

"Cornutt, David K" 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?