Is this thing the coolest, or what?

[Don Tillman]

   Date: Mon Sep  9 00:04:12 -0700 1996
   From: Don Tillman <don at till.com>

   Anybody tried out the new Tek 'scope yet that came about about a week
   ago?  Take a look:
     http://www.testequity.com/new-tektronix/TDS-200-Series.html

   This thing seems completely bitchin'!  It's a digital 'scope with an
   LCD display, and unlike the handheld LCD 'scopettes, this one has a
   proper full-sized front panel.  And the 60MHz version is only $1K.
   And optionally it's got a serial port to make pretty web pages from
   scope traces.  And it's only a little over 4-inches deep.

I finally picked up one.  I'm very impressed, this thing is tits!  The
bees knees.  

It turns out the display is very nice, *not* one of those pathetically
slow passive LCDs that you see on some of those hand-held scopes.  The
controls are great, it does XY displays, you can capture events, look
at what happens before the trigger, all sorts of cool things.  What a
blast!

(I haven't got the serial port option yet, but when I do, and when I
get the thing to talk to my Mac, I'll post some waveforms.)
 
  -- Don