At 06:04 PM 11/22/2005, John Nall wrote: >OK, you clods! You have messed with my mind, and now rather than >straightforwardly ordering a new scope I am bidding on eBay! For a >Tektronix 465. Most likely I will rue the day, although the guy >that is selling it is rated very positively (99.6%) and has a string >of glowing feedbacks about three miles long. Anyway, we shall >see. Of course, I have not yet won the bid. Thanks for all the >good advice. It is always interesting to ask a question on the >piclist, and then wade through the responses to distill out the >wheat from the chaff. (Both "wheat" and "chaff" being relative >terms, of course -- there is no bad advice, only advice that does >not comport with what I want to do). I've been supremely happy with both of the 465 scopes I have. I find I use them far more often than my THS720P digital scope. But: much of my work involves either audio or low level analog signals. The digital scope can't be beat when tracking down glitches or reading a signal that requires either storage or measuring. But it sucks when trying to look at low level analog signals. I'm sure that there are modern digital scopes that work as well as analog scopes these days. I just haven't found one yet. dwayne -- Dwayne Reid Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax Celebrating 21 years of Engineering Innovation (1984 - 2005) .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .- `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' Do NOT send unsolicited commercial email to this email address. This message neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist