In message <[email protected]>, Mark Sims writes:

>One problem with leaving the 3458A on all the time is the vacuum
>fluorescent display.  These have a rather limited lifetime and
>leaving them on 24/7 puts a lot of hours on the tube.  Someday those
>displays will become unobtainium...

That's a smaller catastrophe than it sounds:  The display has a
pretty trivial parallel interface, and it will be pretty trivial
to connect something else instead.

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