Yep, no problem. It made sense since you had posted before Brumby's NSA. I've added them both with the aforementioned adjustments. POS applies to all kinds of sources, whereas NSA is more specifically those more colorful (or dark, as the case may be) ones.
I like the way you went with both. 
Somehow, though, it seems a bit sad that my greatest contribution to this thread has been to the Glossary.
What's wrong with that? You're part of the design spec.
Upstream 500 errors are the clusterfuck 
Language guys !
I'll just drop this here for context:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/news/server-outage-12-3-18/
Charlie-Foxtrot seems to be the acceptable substitute nowadays.
from reading
your info-drop, it seems to me that HostGator made a bunch of unauthorized modifications to eevblog's server without warning or even contacting anybody at eevblog; but as always, management finds a way to make it THEIR fault. Time to dust off this old saw...
A man is flying in a hot-air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man below. He lowers the balloon farther and shouts, "Excuse me! Can you tell me where I am?"
The man below says: "Yes, you're in a hot-air balloon, hovering 30 feet above this field."
"You must be an engineer," says the balloonist.
"I am," replies the man. "How did you know?"
"Well," says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but it's utterly useless use to me."
The man below says, "You must be in management."
"I am," replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?"
"Well," says the engineer, "you don't know where you are or what you're doing, but you expect me to be able to help. You're in the same position you were before we met, but now it's my fault."
I've mentioned before that I have one 2465 that came to me in New York from NASA by means of Albuquerque;
Where, presumably, it turned right or it would never have managed to find its way to you.
I'm still sitting waiting to find the right 2465 at the right price. I'm determined that I'll eventually have one in the collection, but I have a sneaking suspicion that when I do it'll quickly become my "daily driver" so I want one that'll keep going for along time.
Actually, I think it was, just as is usually the case with Bugs & Daffy, the missing of that left turn at Albuquerque which resulted in my poor Ex-NASA 2465 meeting up with me, and its ensuing misadventures.
My experience has shown me that what you're hoping for is pretty much a unicorn; unless you somehow earn Ifni's favor and get one that's been maintained then immediately winds up in the hands of somebody who doesn't know what they have. These 'scopes are the sort of gear that you DON'T want to find "sitting untouched in a box in a closet for 30 years"; they're livestock and sitting unused is as detrimental to them as being used carelessly. If I were going to hope for that kind of luck, I'd save it for a lottery ticket.
While I bought the one above and another one pretty cheap, it was as parts units intending to use them to fix my 2465 that was spoils of a prior corporate gig. I took it in lieu of a performance bonus that was worth far less than it was at the time as it was then in near-pristine condition.
If you merely want one in working condition, that's possible to find as cheap as a few hundred dollars; but if you want one that you KNOW works correctly, be prepared to buy two or more and kit-bash. Then you'll need to pay a small fortune for alignment and calibration; part of which, according to the Tek Service manuals, requires a calibrated 2465 to complete.
There are several common failure modes which require replacing boards that alter calibration, which of course is by far the more expensive part of the acquisition process.
There are a few vendors on fleaBay who've earned a rep for offering healthy, ready-to-use 2465s with proper alignment and fresh calibration after replacing the EAROM battery; but those are typically offered in the $700-1000 range or more.
I think I ascended to a new level of TEA this morning. I couldn't find the cord that goes with my bathrobe, so rather than risking a scalding tea or cooking oil incident I made sure the robe covered me up to the point of decency, looped a stackable banana plug lead around myself and the robe, plugged the lead it into itself and went about my business.
Stackable Banana Belt
+5 conductivity
+2 fashionability
35% chance of causing mild headshaking
I've done similarly more than a few times with a bit of Cat5... to quote my momma:
"The universal warrior uses all weapons at his disposal." Cheers,
mnem
Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot?!?
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