Olin,


Have you seen 

http://www.tek.com/products/oscilloscopes/industry_comp.html?wt=550&title=Tektronix%3A%20Products%20%3E%20Oscilloscopes%20%3E%20TDS1000%20/%20TDS2000%20Series&label=http%3A//www.tek.com/products/oscilloscopes/industry_comp.html&link=http%3A//www.tek.com/products/oscilloscopes/industry_comp.html

DSO - Digital Storage Oscilloscopes 

Aligent VS tek.

Does it convince you to buy tek? Not sure it is all
marketing talk there.......

John

--- Olin Lathrop <olin_piclist@embedinc.com> wrote:

> Bob Axtell wrote:
> > In 8 years, I've never had a scrape my scope
> didn't pull me out of. I
> > visit clients
> > all the time, and I have a better feel with my
> 35-yo Tek475 than those
> > funny digital ones my clients always seem to
> squander money on. I LIKE
> > the analog feel of those old scopes.
> 
> I bought a used Tek465 (I think, not in the office
> right now) about 10 years
> ago for about $250.  It's an OK scope, but the
> trigger is flaky the fan is
> making noise, and the vertical gain is a little off
> on one channel ever
> since the last time it was "calibrated" (never going
> back to that place).
> 
> Analog scopes are fine for what they are, but single
> event capture is very
> useful for microcontroller circuits.  I'd rather
> have a slightly less
> capable digital scope with its single event capture
> than its analog
> counterpart.  If I had to pick one, I'd pick the
> otherwise unimpressive
> TDS210 over the analog scope I have now for that
> reason.  I'm seriously
> considering a Tek TDS2000, and similar models from
> Agilent and others.
> 
> Tektronics is doing some kind of event here in a
> week or two, and I might
> pop in to put hands on a TDS2000.  Now if Agilent
> only ran a similar
> event...
> 
> 
>
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