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From: cthulhu@athena.mit.edu (Jim Reich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Oscilloscope
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Date: 27 Jan 89 00:48:53 GMT
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In article <8914@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> mhcoen@athena.mit.edu (Michael H. Coen) writes:
>Hi.  Does anyone know about the Data Acquisition Unit which has been
>advertised by Datel Computers in Amiga World?  It's a
>hardware/software package which is supposed to let an Amiga be used as
>a digital scope.  ($179.99, page 79, Feb. 89)

The thing looked good to me as well, until I noticed the slow conversion
time.  Looks like it would be fine as a Data Recorder, but pretty lousy
as an oscilloscope with a 20usec max conversion rate and fairly low accuracy.

Aside from the ads, though, I have not seen or heard *anything* about that
company or its products.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone out there know how to make a reasonably
fast computer 'oscilloscope'?  Even with an immensely fast DAC, I wonder what
a 7Mhz computer can do as for as processing nanosecond data, which would
be necessary to debug something like, say, a 7MHz computer...  Can even the
mighty blitter sling around data that fast?

						-- Jim