[sdiy] Durability of measurement equipment, was: OT: DMM recommendations

[Ingo Debus]

> Am 06.03.2018 um 22:15 schrieb rsdio at audiobanshee.com:
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> There is a significant cost difference between manufacturing something that will last a lifetime versus something that is easily broken, discarded, and simply replaced.

This doesn’t apply to DMMs, but to the more expensive oscilloscopes: often there’s a Windows operation system built in. How long are these supposed to be used? These days scopes aren’t lifetime buys any longer, but when I spent that much money I’d want to use it for at least 20 years. Any 20 years old Windows computers out there that still are doing their jobs?

Once I read the license agreement of a really expensive scope (I think it was a LeCroy). It was said that the user was responsible for security, keep virus scanners updated and things like that. How is one supposed to do that once the scope is ten or twenty years old?

Ingo