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    • Apr 2010
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    DrTaylor on Amphour (chief designer of Fluke 8060A)

    If you are a fan of Fluke handheld 8xxx series multimeters (example 8060A), then you definitely want to read and submit questions here

    http://www.eevblog.com/forum/amphour...how-this-week/

    and then listen to the Amphour show later on.

    I'll be submitting questions. If you don't have an eevblog account, you can send me a PM and I'll add them to the list.

    Here is an ongoing thread ...

    http://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgea...e-multimeters/

    Quote "drtaylor"

    Message to Dave: I worked at Fluke in the late 70s and early 80s as a design engineer. I started as a junior engineer on the original handheld DMM, the 8020. Later I was the chief designer of the very successful 8060 series, which by the way, was the first microcontroller based handheld DMM.
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