Hi!
I have this note for Member Pointy-hat!!!
And the sooner the better!!! I'm scratching my head over a Metrix OX8627 100 Mc/s scope with calibration & other faults on it, it's got one huge great micro Z601 that someone's had a go at, and it's totally beyond my drawing out!!! (not surprisingly the maker refused me assistance!!!).
What I'd like is for somebody to start an EMP-war that destroys all the LCDs, plasmas, ASICs, Arduinos and other indecipherable thingys but leaves the discrete, linear and SSI devices unharmed - at least in the 70s and early 80s you built and fixed things you could understand!!!
You have my heartfelt comisserations sir, I feel exactly the same way as you about it!!!
Chris Williams