Are there those of you old enough to remember Julian Hirsch of Hirsch-Houck Laboratories? He (Julian) tested over 4,000 pieces of audio gear and those results were published in
Popular Electronics and
Stereo Review.
In 1981, he purchased new test equipment from UREI (yeah,
that UREI) to replace the General Radio gear he was using. The Model 2000 was a revolutionary piece of test gear that plugged into a modified HP X-Y plotter. It would generate, receive and plot a swept sine signal from 20-20kHz. The Model 2010 was similar but was a receive-only unit that could be synchronized with the incoming sine sweep and ignore voice announcement from a test record or tape
The eBay auction I just
won was
the test equipment he bought from UREI! Look at the letter he hand-typed asking about the products UREI offered. Also note the packing slip and the prices. The total was $5930.20 (in 1981 dollars). The equivalent today would be $16,600+.
While I've got several of the UREI plug in modules and HP X-X mainframes, I couldn't let this opportunity pass to own a piece of test equipment history.
Lee
Guess I'll see if the hyper link worked when I post this. If not, I'll include the messy link in my next post.