I second this opinion. I bought a 7704 with a 7A26 and 7B53 plugins almost
two years ago. It gives >200MHz BW (100MHz triggering) at about $350. What
a workhorse! It will show things that digital scopes won't, at a small
fraction of the price (as long as you don't need the storage ability).

Sean

At 04:13 PM 5/3/00 -0700, you wrote:
>You could do worse to start off, than a Tek 7000 series mainframe with vert
>amps and timebase plugins. This would probably set you back $300-ish, but
>you'd be able to get 100 MHz bandwidth.  I use the 7000 mainframe to hold a
>pair of spectrum analyzers.
>

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