At 04:49 PM 4/17/00 -0700, you wrote: >Wagner is right !!!! >You can have a tons of data captured pretty fast, if the display does not >let you update fast enough. >Did You ever try to see CD player eye-pattern signal ? You can clearly see >it with a 50 Mhz analog scope, but >my 100 MHz 1Gs/s Tektronix DSO can not display that signal at all. >Peter > Shoot, for YEARS, I've dreamed of, yearned for, and pined after a 1 Gs/s nirvana experience, and every Dec 25 raced downstairs like a 6 YO hope-ing to find one under the tree, and now you go and tell me they're just no darn good for real engineering problems. Wagner's right, heck with digital, keep the old HP 1740, why mortgage the house?