John Miles wrote: > Of course, you'd hear the same thing if you asked the modern-day HP if > they > could refurbish an inkjet cartridge. :) Not the same thing, and not the > same company, I know... but still, HP had no incentive to try very hard to > develop a reconditioning process, at least before Datum started selling > replacement tubes. >
FWIW: Wait a minute. Datum owns Symmetricom which bought HP/Agilent's CBT production line and admits that their tubes were never as good as HP/Agilent's tubes. The 5071, as opposed to the 5061, has a ROM with a password in the CBT so that only OEM tubes will work. The password consists of a poem written by Len Cutler. The poem is copyrighted so that it would be illegal for a competitor to simply reproduce it, according to Len. Rick Karlquist N6RK _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
