Uhhh, that's what the 'multianalyser' team was up to, but progress is slow. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MultiAnalyser/ The project intended to build an open source multi channel analog/digital hardware module which would be interfaced to a PC under whatever O/S you liked (probably JAVA based). Robert kravnus wolf wrote: > Actually from the amount of members on the list and > the quality we have I am suprise we don't build one as > a team. Hint hint ;) > > John > > --- William Chops Westfield wrote: > > >>On Apr 3, 2006, at 4:37 AM, Olin Lathrop wrote: >> >> >>>It also pisses me off because we all know it would >> >>have been >> >>>a simple difference in the firmware to have done >> >>it right. I >> >>>understand things like bandwidth, sample depth, >> >>number of >> >>>channels, etc cost money and that a low end scope >> >>will have >> >>>less of them, but doing this right would have cost >> >>nothing extra. >> >>I wonder if anyone will ever sell an open-source >>oscilloscope? >>Don't like the way the SW works? Fix it yourself, >>or download >>the "unstable with enhanced extra knobs" version >>from your favorite >>repository. Since a lot of the high end scopes >>these days seem to >>be essentially PC clones as the Display/UI, it's not >>unthinkable. >> >>BillW -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist