Charles H. House on instrumentation: A marriage of computers and test equipment

Electronics is at a watershed in terms of both useful performance and impact upon society. As a consequence, the design process for electronic products is undergoing substantial revision. This revision is exciting, even awesome, in its implication for productivity. And the implications for test instrumentation " in terms of quality of product design, merged synthesis-analysis requirement, and reliability and supportability of the delivered product " are profound. Indeed the ultimate use of much of the new electronics capability will be in "instrumentation for society."