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New Excellent article. Thanks.
It's always good to read something from someone who has walked the walk. I hope Google (and Dell and MS and HP and Samsung and ...) are listening.

His bit about "watching the watchers" at the end is close to how I feel, too.

Cheers,
Scott.
New Best part
When he says he assumed they would leapfrog past what he's doing, but in fact his 20-years-ago models had already solved problems they don't even seem to be aware of yet.
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Drew
New It happens all the time.
Bright new engineers don't know he evolutionary history of a product and often repeat design errors the old timers learned from years ago.

It's important to know if a design element was there for functional reasons, esthetic reasons or to make it easy to manufacture. And even if functional, was it an arbitrary choice out of a number of seemingly equivalent choices. No one really documents the hows and whys of design choices.

This reminds of the story of the Soviets cloning a B-29 that crash landed in Siberia after a bombing run on Japan in 1944. The first Soviet copy (called TU-4) included a replica of a patched bullet hole. Obviously, no one wanted to risk saying they understood the original design.
Alex
New Quite analogous to Tektronix' ploy re rip-off clones.
(This may have been Hickok's attempt to stealth-grab a Govt. scope bid.. but there were a few others who tried.)

Tek placed a hole? bracket? somewhere--which had no function. H.'s 'Model' duplicated that McGuffin, along with most-else.
Would love to find the transcript/hear H.'s testimony "as to its purpose", but know-not enough even to search for it. Tek won their case.

(I have seen pics of the ringer, though; guts not remotely akin to Tek's internal quality.)
Tek, after all, had their own ceramic-fab, eventually made their mostly-ceramic CRTs from scratch (and each one is a Jewel, all by itself, to the informed eye.)
They invented ceramic terminal strips with tinned-notches (silver-bearing solder required) to the visual effect of neatly laid out components and elaborate wiring harnesses.
Everything worked, but was also beautiful to see!

(Never again.. in the world of 'Manufacturing'. New stuff will have half-lives. 50 yo early Tek vacuum-tube models still work. In CAL.)
But that 'Tektronix' is also Gone forever, despite the name persisting.
New That's like false streets on maps. :-)
I used to know a guy who got to name a few in the Sydney directory.

Wade.
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New We all must get used-to--
Nothing is quite what it seems, and if the details matter, you still have to triple-check 'twixt advertised and actual 'quality'. Ads Still LIe, it is immanent in them.

(While this has always been ~the case, methinks it's getting worse)--not 'clearer'--despite all this 'transparency' cliche. :-/
     For Greg: IEEE Spectrum - Bre Pettis - (Another Scott) - (7)
         Warnings re. Google Glass by Steve Mann + "HDR" - (Ashton) - (6)
             Excellent article. Thanks. - (Another Scott) - (5)
                 Best part - (drook) - (4)
                     It happens all the time. - (a6l6e6x) - (3)
                         Quite analogous to Tektronix' ploy re rip-off clones. - (Ashton) - (2)
                             That's like false streets on maps. :-) - (static) - (1)
                                 We all must get used-to-- - (Ashton)

He makes Murphy look like a babbling optimist.
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