After having revived a HP E1498 VXI controller, which is a VXI Slot sized version of a HP9000 UNIX workstation from the late 90ies of the last century (LINK and the revival of a military use Subsonic analysis VME mainframe, it was only a question of time and opportunity to start the next computer history project.
The opportunity came in March 2018. Someone at eBay sold several new old stock Spectrum Analyzers.
The text below describes a HP75000 Series B mainframe. I also have a file describing a HP75000 Series C mainframe.
HP 75000 in general The HP75000 is a VXI mainframe. A VXI mainframe is a standardized infrastructure where individual measurement devices can be simply plugged in and used. This is only possible because the two important areas of standardization have been addresses by VXI:
Hardware: VXI defines the physical layer where devices, even from different vendors can be integrated.
The text below describes a HP75000 Series C mainframe. I also have a file describing a HP75000 Series B mainframe.
Meanwhile this beast occurred in my lab…
This is a large, noisy, but super-flexible VXI solution. All 14xx modules from HP and all older 13xx modules (with adapters) can be used inside this mainframe.
HP 75000 in general The HP75000 is a VXI mainframe. A VXI mainframe is a standardized infrastructure where individual measurement devices can be simply plugged in and used.
