> meknows you all need to get out more. How so Bill? I was away for several years doing 'other things' before getting back into the field of electronics at the circuit design level. Get back to me when you've done a stint in a semiconductor manufactures's "front end" and worked with SPAs (Semiconductor Parameter Analyzers - the direct descendant to the venerable "Curve Tracer" line produced by Tektronix) ... I have also personally owned and used one of the early Tektronix "Vacuum Tube" curve tracers (meant to sweep and characterize vacuum tubes) as well as their first semi-conductror curve tracer ... RF Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill & Pookie" To: Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:57 PM Subject: Re: [OT]: What Test Gear to measure xtal frequency to 1Hz > When you all think of graphs and semiconductors > when the word "curve" is mentioned, meknows you > all need to get out more. > > Pookie > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim" > To: > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 1:46 PM > Subject: Re: [OT]: What Test Gear to measure xtal > frequency to 1Hz > > > > What? > > > > Have you NEVER heard of a "curve" tracer? > > > > (Methinks you need to get out more ...) > > > > RF Jim > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Peter L. Peres" > > To: > > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 1:17 PM > > Subject: Re: [OT]: What Test Gear to measure > xtal frequency to 1Hz > > > > > > > On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Jim wrote: > > > > > > >advent of the microprocessor (MEASURE the > > > >ambient temperature, do a look-up in a table > > > >BASED on that particular crystal's "curve" > > > ^^^^^ > > > Why do you like that word so much ? ;-) I'd > say you speak some other > > > languages too ... (what do you call the bloody > freq/temp line, a graph ? > > > Are you greek or something ? ;-) > > > > > > Peter > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics