Regarding price: there was a sign on the one I used at the University, directed to students obviously: "the HP 8510 is worth more than your life".
Besides HP computers, I collect HP instrumentation. Actually the latter hobby created the need for the former, since I got into vintage HP computing to control said instrumentation collection. Marc Sent from my iPad > On Jul 8, 2016, at 11:27 PM, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote: > > >> On Jul 8, 2016, at 12:15 AM, Brent Hilpert <hilp...@cs.ubc.ca> wrote: >> >> So a friend tells me there's a maybe-abandoned HP 8510 Network Analyzer in >> the hallway of the engineering building of the univ. he works at. >> I presume it's a unit like this, as he says it's over a metre tall: >> http://www.ece.lsu.edu/emdl/facilities/network%20analyser.html >> >> I figure its a little too far large and too far away from my needs to take >> it on, but out of curiousity does anyone know offhand what processor they >> used in these? >> (I haven't looked in depth online). >> Cursory guess is its mid-90s technology. > > That sounds right. I have an HP catalog from 1993, which lists very similar > bits, an 8510 display unit and the 8515 and 8517 S-parameter test sets. So > I'd guess this is a slightly later followup model. List price of that day, > FYA, $36500 for the 8510C, and $41400 for the 8515A (slightly more for the > 8517 due to the higher top frequency). > > Something that's going to be obvious to some but possibly not to all: > "network analyzer" is short for "vector network analyzer", an electronic > component measuring device. It has nothing to do with computer data networks. > > paul >
