Ol' Duffer
Guest
Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:06 pm
My trusty old Tektronix stuff is getting pretty flaky and tired,
so I was looking for a replacement. I was somewhat disappointed
to see that all the stuff on Tek's website is now digital. The
reasonably priced models don't have enough record length to do
anything with, and you are into the $4K range before you get
anything even barely usable, and those are only 8 bit resolution.
Price is over $7K before capabilities start to look attractive.
I guess the company has been taken over by soft heads, and it's
a shame to see a former maker of fine equipment go to pot, but I
guess I have to look elsewhere.
So does anyone still make a top quality analog (CRT) oscilloscope?
Digital storage is a nice occasional-use feature, but real-time
analog display is needed almost always (IMO). And I don't need
a whole lot of speed - a couple hundred MHz is plenty. Dual
trace is fine, don't need more. Something along the lines of the
old Tek 465?
Mat Nieuwenhoven
Guest
Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:35 pm
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:06:21 -0500, Ol' Duffer wrote:
Quote:
My trusty old Tektronix stuff is getting pretty flaky and tired,
so I was looking for a replacement. I was somewhat disappointed
to see that all the stuff on Tek's website is now digital. The
reasonably priced models don't have enough record length to do
anything with, and you are into the $4K range before you get
anything even barely usable, and those are only 8 bit resolution.
Price is over $7K before capabilities start to look attractive.
I guess the company has been taken over by soft heads, and it's
a shame to see a former maker of fine equipment go to pot, but I
guess I have to look elsewhere.
So does anyone still make a top quality analog (CRT) oscilloscope?
Digital storage is a nice occasional-use feature, but real-time
analog display is needed almost always (IMO). And I don't need
a whole lot of speed - a couple hundred MHz is plenty. Dual
trace is fine, don't need more. Something along the lines of the
old Tek 465?
Instek maybe? Don't know how good they are. Or Philips .
Mat Nieuwenhoven
