[jacquesm]

But he didn't break it.

[stavros]

He made it not show the thing the salesperson needed it to show, which prevented the salesperson from doing his job.

[jacquesm]

Please. A powercycle fixed it and besides, if you don't want people to play with the gear then don't put it in the general public aisle. That's where people will mess with your gear as any trade show booth operator very well knows.

I worked in a computer store, the number of pranks that people got up to with the gear there was insane and some of them were quite a bit more harmful than this one. I really don't see the problem. As long as you can reboot the device no harm done. Once people start flashing your systems or rewriting boot loaders we're in different territory.

[stavros]

How do you know a powercycle fixed it?

[jacquesm]

Because I actually read - and understood - the OPs comment.

[stavros]

Including the part where he never says if the power cycle fixed it?

[jacquesm]

Including the part where he explains in which part of the memory his program is stored. This is before the age of flash.

If you want to verify it for yourself the manual is here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=HP8566+spectrum+analyzer+ope...