I like my 465B, it is a good old scope. They are reaonably fast for my
purposes, and have good features (delay, etc). Although I might appreciate
it more because I bought it off my former employer in a closing-out sale for
$12.50 (Canadian, I outbid one of the programmers who offered $10 . Of
course that's not quite as good a deal as the camera attachement I scrounged
out of a storage bay that the same company wanted cleaned out so they could
terminate the lease. It was a free-for-all, and I was mighty happy when I
found that Tektronix box under some empty boxes !

Dave

"Eric R Snow" wrote in message
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On 01 Apr 2004 04:43:54 GMT, inch (Peter H.) wrote:



Dean was in charge of designing the 453A, the best
scope Tek ever made (I have 3 of them).

Then you've never owned a 485, my personal favorite.


The 453 was a favorite of IBM's service organization, but not of other
manufacturers, and probably not of many engineers.

The 485 was the best analog scope ever made by anyone.

The HP 1725A was a second to the 485 at my former employer.

The mainframe manufacturing test cells got 485s; the service organization
got
1725As.

After both had been deleted, we went to 2465As.
What do you think of the 465B scopes? I've been told by someone I
trust that these are good for a neophyte who just needs to diagnose
problem likely to be found in a machine shop. So I have been shopping
for them on ebay. Haven't won one yet but maybe I should be looking at
other scopes too.
Thanks,
Eric R Snow