Colossus wasn't general purpose, so ENIAC was the first general purpose.

It was the first general purpose.

Colossus wasn't general purpose.

Aaron Levie is co-founder and CEO of Box not Dropbox..

Dude that's nothing, Sports Center has whole stories base on one tweet...

..they were called rain forests, we decided we didn't need them and wanted to raise cattle instead...

We've known about them for a long time, why do you think there are three computers on the space shuttle...

I find conclusion 7 a bit presumptuous. Soft errors are also caused by alpha particles emitted by contaminants in a chip's packaging in addition to cosmic rays. You could imagine that certain DIMMs might have lower quality (i.e. more contaminated) packaging than other DIMMs.

Duh...coal!

Make sure you get the physicists scopes that measure current going in the opposite direction.

/ducks, electrical engineer vs. physicists humor..

But seriously, you can't got wrong with Tek scopes they are everywhere, a good interface to learn, but not cheap. As far as analyzers, really depends on your needs and once again budget...

I feel like the norm is Tek scopes, Agilent (HP) analyzers, counters, supplies...Not that it's the best, just what I've used and seen throughout the years.

Just find your local sales reps, they'll gladly loan you some.