Re: Discrete Schottky?

From: James Arthur (arthurj_at_aol.comet.net)
Date: 12/05/04 

Date: 05 Dec 2004 18:31:51 GMT

On 12/5/04, John Larkin wrote:

>On 05 Dec 2004 08:23:07 GMT, arthurj@aol.comet.net (James Arthur)
>wrote:
>
>> Not bought: a 5 1/2 digit Fluke DMM, offered for $25. I
>>hemmed over this one a while, but, already having three of like
>>capability, couldn't justify yet another.
>
>The real hazard is ebay: it's a 24/7 flea market. I have bought
>*eight* 1180x sampling scopes so far. Somebody stop me!

  Stop me first! My favorite notebook, an HP OmniBook 600,
came from there, as did six or eight of its brethern. With modern
LiIon cells retrofitted into its pack, Win3.1, & a compact flash
replacing its original hard drive, the thing is lightning fast, dead
silent (no moving parts), runs all day & suspends perfectly for
months on a single charge, all without error.

   The 1-second availability is grand & allows me to use it just
like a book -- I pick it up, turn it on, and am back exactly where
I left off minutes, days, or weeks before. I write or calculate
or check my parts-inventory as desired, then put it back down.
MS Word 6.0 and Excel work wonderfully, and faster on this '486/75
than on my bigger, 'faster' machine with 100x the CPU. This is
how computers *should* be.

  I wrote a small BASIC program on it that simulates an LED-driving
converter circuit, accurately, but making somewhat profligate use
of the CPU. It's a one-off, and I was lazy. Even so, response time is
faster than my persistence-of-vision, as the results are up before my
after-image of the previous screen has faded. Sweet.

eBay...sigh. Is there no rest for the weary?

  Cheers,
  James

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