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>When you tear into an old piece of test equipment, you’re probably going to come up against some surprises. That’s especially true of high-precision gear like oscilloscopes from the time before ASICs and ADCs, which had to accomplish so much with discrete components and a lot of engineering ingenuity.

Archive: https://archive.today/kx3Yz From the post: >>When you tear into an old piece of test equipment, you’re probably going to come up against some surprises. That’s especially true of high-precision gear like oscilloscopes from the time before ASICs and ADCs, which had to accomplish so much with discrete components and a lot of engineering ingenuity.
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My pleasure. Just remember that old stuff is going to have issues that the designers never considered.

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Non-leaded soldier in nearly fucking everything and shitty Chinese electrolytic capacitors back in the late 90's to mid 2000's (back in the AMD XP era). I fixed a lot of motherboards and monitors with those shitty caps for cheap (sub $10 for early LCD monitors that cost $100+, mostly for friends or for myself).

I also had some stuff that I did a shitty version of a re-flow on because of chip creep and I had a $30 PS3 that I only really used as a bluray player (pcgamer) anyway (when they would have still cost a fuck load new, people were almost giving them away when they had the light of death).

Fuck load cheaper than buying what would have cost around 300-400$ for just a bluray player. I did play a few games on it but after Sega/PS1 I really only played pc games or arcade games.

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Yep. Most of my things are older but I remember all that mess. Anything to save a penny, ends up costing a dollar.