Mike Hord wrote:
> I prefer more channels myself, at least for simpler microcontroller development.

That's what I was thinking, which brings my list of four down to the TDS2014B 
and TDS2024B. The extra bandwidth is probably utterly pointless in my case, so 
the TDS2014 is the last choice left.

> I've used TDS2000 series scopes pretty heavily in the past and I'd recommend
> them.  I was always completely satisfied with them.

That's nice to know. I've heard good things said about the 2000 series, and 
Tek kit is usually pretty good in general. It's just nicer to hear it from 
someone who's actually used one :)

> Perhaps you should consider buying an older, higher bandwidth non-DSO
> scope for other stuff, as a second scope...

I've got one - a Tektronix 466 analogue storage scope. The TDS20xxB will be 
complementing it, not replacing it. There are a few things an analogue scope 
does better than a DSO, hence why the 466 is staying. Just that the storage 
functionality on the 466 is dire. Not so much "Ah HA! So that's what's 
wrong!", more "Oh damn, the intensity was too low to catch it."

Life's too short to play with every single button just to get an acceptable 
stored trace, and when it ebbs away after around a minute and generally isn't 
particularly well focussed to begin with, it's hard to get any real analysis 
done. Plus the whole "take a photo and play with Photoshop" method of data 
capture is getting really old, really fast.

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