ODP: scope question

[Don Tillman]

   From: Roman Sowa <rsowa at WizjaTV.pl>
   Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:14:43 +0100

   i'm about to buy Tek's TDS210 (60MHz, 1GS/s, LCD)
   anyone used this?
   is it reeeally good or just good?
   i don't want to spend too much ($1400) on a scope which is 
   just not-bad

Yes, I've had one for about a year.  I like it a lot.  It's better
than an analog scope in some ways and worse in others.  It's got a
different feel than an analog scope, and that takes some getting used
to, but I find it very useful.

The price is very reasonable, it can grab waveforms and you can
examine them closely, measure points on the waveform accurately, it
can do averaging over each trigger event, and all that.

I would avoid those small hand-held portable scopes like the plague --
Fluke, Tektronics, and anybody else who's making them now.  It takes
about 5 seconds between the event happening and the display updating,
then another 5 seconds for the passive LCD display to fade up the new
image.  And the user interface is more like a Gameboy than a scope.
Yick.

The cool thing about the TDS210 is that it has a proper scope-like
user interface.  And it's pretty quick about displaying, active LCDs
and fast processing, though I would prefer it a little faster.

  -- Don