"Too_Many_Tools" wrote in
oups.com:

"Yeah, the 7000's make great boat anchors too "

Actually the size has never bothered me.

If you look at the footprint a 7000 series scope takes and then compare
it to the space taken up by a supposely "portable" Tek scope, there is
little difference.

That's because they both were designed to be rack mounted,which limits the
width and depth of the instrument!

7K series are LAB scopes,designed for flexibility,along with high
performance.



Also since my scope rarely leaves my test bench, the weight difference
(which is small) does not matter.

What does matter is dependability, reliability and cost....all factors
that the newer Tek scopes seem to fail at.

TMT



That is because the TEK of today is not the TEK of 1945-1980.


If you can find a copy,read "Winning With People;The First 40 Years of
Tektronix" by Marshall M. Lee.
Tektronix published it and gave every TEK employee a free copy in 1986.

TEK may still have some copies they might part with,or Ebay at some price.
Or some Beaverton used-book stores!

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net