It all started when I FOUND (yes, found) a Fluke 8012A that was going to be tossed. It got tossed alright, into my bag. It powered up and the display seemed ok, but as I was away and had no test leads I couldn't actually see if it worked. When I got home I plugged in some test leads and - it's perfect! Works great!. Fast forward a few years until I find this place, and that Fluke History page - that bugger of a thread got me to pick up an 8060A AND a 45! Finally I bit a bench and bought a scope (Siglent SDS 1102CML), my first new piece of test gear (not counting crappy Harbor Freight multimeters of which I have like half a dozen stashed around the house). All I needed yet was a power supply and lo and behold, Dave does a video on the HP E3610A. Off to ebay and - hey, nice price. All I've bought since are little add-on type devices - I got one of those USB microscopes like Dave mentioned in the $300 electronics lab video and it works quite well - I have some vision loss in my right eye and displaying things highly magnified on my 27" display works out quite well.
But it never stops - since this thread was created now I'm after yet another multimeter and another power supply. Sheesh! I already put an offer in for one of the GDM-8251As. I used to just look at things like this as neat but not something I need. Now it doesn't matter if I need it, I need it. Maybe I need to block this thread.....
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