[HAM] Generator callibration device?

[Scott Hawthorn]

At 08:51 AM 4/10/2008, Alan Lenhoff wrote:
>It always amazes me that people are still
>debating how Hammond callibrated its tone
>generators. Given that they stopped production
>less than 35 years ago, you'd think *someone* who
>worked in the factory would still be around to
>explain the process and let us all know how to
>take a bag of cheap caps and restore all our
>Hammonds to their original specs quickly and
>reliably.

You would think. I wonder if those employees had to sign some sort of 
disclosure agreement, and are still taking it too seriously after all these 
years.

>Anyhow, saw this on ebay
>http://tinyurl.com/3lcgwc and wondered whether it
>might be a piece of the puzzle. The seller is
>located in suburban Chicago, so maybe someone's
>cleaning out the basement of a former Hammond
>employee.
>Being largely an electronic illiterate, I have no
>idea whether this device is unique in any way.

It's a portable oscilloscope. Whether-or-not it was used on tone generators 
is anybody's guess. My guess? No.