When I arrived home on Tuesday, I could see it from the street: My HP5325B had arrived. A crude looking biggish packet was sitting right in front of my front door. I know everybody is cross with DHL/Hermes/DPD/UPS/younameit people, but, at least here in Germany, they're really poor sods. Especially before Christmas, they do work their ass off for very little money. Where I live, the risk of a packet getting stolen is actually quite low, and as I usually come home rather early in the afternoon, I don't mind too much for things that didn't cost too much. It also saved me going to the post office, standing there in line for half an hour and dragging it back home.
The outer box was in fact made of 2 smaller boxes, held together at a slight angle by liberal use of adhesive tape. But the counter itself was in a Playstation 4 box, and this was padded quite well (with what looked like he was glad to get rid of). Despite the looks, that
was very effective.
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The HP5325B lacks its feet and the tilting stand (was likely mounted in a rack), and it does have that dreaded oblong power jack. Worst of all, it does not work.
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All I get is a decimal point that can be switched and an overflow indication. (I only did a very quick test in CHECK mode.)
Now, Keysight really must be commended for not only keeping manuals for all their ancient gear, but especially for making it available. Alas, the scan quality is so poor that the schematics are almost unreadable, at least for me. Does anyone have scans where the part and pin numbers are readable? I feel those Nixies want to light up again in all their glory!
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