29 Oct
2002
29 Oct
'02
5:55 p.m.
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
I also noticed the scope in the photos. Even though I thought it was abit
curious, I'm afraid I would have likely made the same assumption in that
it was being used as a vector display.
-Toth
Taking our
cue from a recent long and nearly-immortal thread on
Oscilloscopes; sub-Tektronix scopes; sub-sub rack-mount Tek scopes -
Marvin and I concocted a nice visual in-joke. I mounted a working
RM503 in the rack with my PDP 11/44 and waited for one of the
Listmembers to notice it and laugh. And I waited.... and waited....
Nobody got it! O well....
I don;t 'get it' either. OK, so you put an old Tektronix 'scope in the
PDP11 Rack. But Tekky 500s were sitll in common use when PDP11s were in
use. It wouldn't be a particularly uncommon thing to have near a PDP11
system.
If I'd seen it, I'd have assuemd you were using it as a vector display
device (this was not at all uncommon) and would probably have asked what
DAC you were driving it from (VT11, AA11-K, AR11-K, LPS, whatever). It
wouldn't have struck me as 'odd'.