Speaking of books about HP, I highly recommend "Bill and Dave: How Hewlett and
Packard Built the Worlds Greatest Company". It covers the history of HP
including the development of many of the landmark pieces of test equipment, the
HP business model, and the company expansion from the garage to
This is assuming that your oscilloscope is set at 100 nS/DIV. My Tek 2465A
will sweep at 5 nS/DIV normally, and 500 pS/DIV when the sweep is set to X10.
If I'm figuring correctly, this will allow 1e-12 in 432 seconds. I use a stop
watch to time the zero crossings of the sine wave - something
