26 August, 1960

Dear Linus,

I guess I shall write you a letter. I am sorry you did not get to England. I ran into a couple of babes (one from Pasadena) on the train down from my meeting in Glasgow who had been to the Mental Health show in Edinburgh and thought it had been worthwhile. You could have gone while I was in Glasgow and then we could have met. We are just back from Cambridge. It was quite fun. Our party was a little bigger than I expected. Not intimate enough. Or the only person who was intimate with every guest was I.

I regret to say I spent a lot of time a few weeks ago thinking about that present. I made a number of decisions about what I wanted and a number of arguments etc. Since then I have been thinking about my instrument company. It has become a bigger idea. I have been thinking about a particular automatic instrument for many years and I think the time to do something about it has come. Or at least if I do not do anything soon someone else will and as far as I can see my ideas are better then anyone elses. At least as good and much more advanced.

Anyway, back to presents. Sometime I want a taperecorder. Sometime I want a Shure Bros stereo arra and cartridge integral. Now I want a good test oscilloscope and an FM tuner. I have been thinking about test instruments for several months and a good oscilloscope seems to me to be the most useful. One can do anything almost. A little test meter VOM is more useful, I guess. I have been thinking about something like the best professional Hoathkit Scope, which costs $180. Unfortunately, in my search around in what is available and trying, too, for that never available compromise between cost and usefulness and desirableness it has been getting more and more expensive. There is a good scope available here for only $30 more, that is it is not a kit and has a wider pass band, but is not quite as sensitive in the AF range. Anyway the same people are coming out with a 10 megacycle version improved shortly and I am arguing with myself about it. The advantage of 10mc. is that one can look at the IF's of the FM directly, but then I would rather have the IF's FM to look at. Anyway, please you might check into FM receivers. In 1957 CU said the Sherwood 3000 which you might be able to get wholesale.

I might be able to get a scope on the instrument company if it is going soon enough.

That saves the tax somewhat.

My eyes are infected. I must go see the doctor.

Many thanks for our visit with you which I certainly enjoyed. I should rest quietly.

I want to talk some more with you and perhaps make some proposals. I think they are good proposals.

Love from

[Peter Pauling]