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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Need to buy a digital meter?  Get a Fluke!
Message-ID: <1987@argus.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 90 13:10:44 GMT
References: <3924@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US> <4015@kitty.UUCP> <1990Sep10.062945.17134@bpdsun1.uucp>
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In article <1990Sep10.062945.17134@bpdsun1.uucp>, rmf@bpdsun1.uucp (Rob Finley) writes:
: In article <4015@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
: >	While Beckman Industrial makes a decent product, I would
: >recommend that you take a deep breath and spend the extra dollars to
: >buy the Fluke.  A digital multimeter is probably your single most
: >utilized piece of electronic test apparatus, and I would not skimp
: >on such an item.
: If you are looking at the 77, you might go all the way and get an 83.
: The features are even more prolific!  I paid $170 for mine.

Do any of these devices have an RS-232 or GPIB or some kind of computer
interface available?  I'm thinking of buying one and it seems just a 
waste not to be able to take the data right from the meter into the
computer.

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