> > If a person has any reasonable business justification > > But a lot of the people here don't; they're purely hobbyists. So spending > $1K on a piece of test equipment just isn't realistic for them.
Plenty of people will spend $1K on equipment for their hobbies. No, I do not believe that a hobby should be for the rich only, or that you have to spend that sort of money to enjoy classic computing, but I don't think that is a ridiculous sum. -tony