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ctsbillc

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Nov 30, 2003, 5:11:34 PM11/30/03
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I cannot remember an oscilloscope camera with a flash.

Why would you have a flash?

Bill

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Michael A. Terrell

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Nov 30, 2003, 7:04:23 PM11/30/03
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ctsbillc wrote:
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> I cannot remember an oscilloscope camera with a flash.
>
> Why would you have a flash?
>
> Bill

To wash out the film image so you can't see it. ;-)
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I say, the boy is so stupid that he tried to make a back up copy of his
hard drive on the Xerox machine!

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

Al

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Nov 30, 2003, 8:05:31 PM11/30/03
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In article <iWtyb.3073$zf2.2...@news20.bellglobal.com>,
"ctsbillc" <nospamc...@ieee.org> wrote:

> I cannot remember an oscilloscope camera with a flash.
>
> Why would you have a flash?
>

Older o'scopes had a light which would illuminate the etched in
graticule.

Al

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Jim Yanik

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Nov 30, 2003, 9:21:44 PM11/30/03
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Al <no....@here.com> wrote in news:no.spam-
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> In article <iWtyb.3073$zf2.2...@news20.bellglobal.com>,
> "ctsbillc" <nospamc...@ieee.org> wrote:
>
>> I cannot remember an oscilloscope camera with a flash.
>>
>> Why would you have a flash?
>>
>
> Older o'scopes had a light which would illuminate the etched in
> graticule.
>
> Al
>

ISTR that the flash 'pre-sensitized' the phosphor before the sweep for a
faster writing speed.Like when you shine a bright light on a TV screen,it
then glows softly in the dark.

--
Jim Yanik,NRA member
jyanik-at-kua.net

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