In message <200406021650.42931.jake@waskett.org> Jake Waskett wrote: > Whatever you get, don't forget the secondhand market. You can get some > excellent prices on eBay, for example. Um.. Ebay? Excellent prices? Are you joking? Case in point: Tek 465 oscilloscope. Stewart Of Reading have one listed a= t =A3275. The one I was watching on Ebay hit =A3400 - no manuals, no probes= , no plastic front-panel protection cover, just the scope. I can only wonder w= hat sort of idiot would pay that much for a scope, even a Tek. I got a Tek 466 storage scope from a bankruptcy auction at a test equipme= nt dealer a few years ago - total cost was =A341 plus VAT. Someone else had = bought a box of test equipment manuals and gave me the service manual for the sc= ope, too. No probes, but Tektronix probes aren't exactly difficult to find. At the moment I'm after another P6062 (1x/10x switchable, usually coloured g= rey) or P6106 (10x fixed, usually orange) probe for my Tek. IMHO, the older transistorised and IC-based Tek scopes are the nicest - mine does 100MHz, dual-channel, delay-sweep, twin timebase, analogue storage (done by the t= ube as opposed to a DSO which uses an ADC, DAC and RAM store). If I had to recommend a scope, it would be a Tek 46x series scope. No, Tek didn't pay= me to say that (though why would they - the 45x and 46x scopes have been out= of production for years) :) Speaking of test equipment, does anyone (preferably in the UK) have a spa= re logic analyser for sale? So far the cheapest I've seen on the second-hand market was =A3495 and they seem to go for around =A3500 on Ebay. Needless= to say, well out of my price range :-/ Later. --=20 Phil. | Acorn Risc PC600 Mk3, SA202, 64MB, 6= GB, philpem@dsl.pipex.com | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet, 2-slic= e, http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/ | 48xCD, ARCINv6c IDE, SCSI ... Ok, we'll meet the meat. That's cool! -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.