AW: 'scopes

[Magnus Danielson]

>>>>> "HJ" == Haible Juergen <Juergen.Haible at nbgm.siemens.de> writes:

 HJ> I guess we will soon buy one of these new Tektronix scopes
 HJ> here at work.
 HJ> They start to build "virtual analogue" scopes (the magic word
 HJ> is "digital phosphor") to emulated the behavior of different
 HJ> light intensity you get from analogue scopes. Sounds
 HJ> familiar ? Well, I'm not as picky with scopes as with 
 HJ> synthesizers ... a few GHz bandwidth for 30k$.
 HJ> At home, I still work with a 150$ 20MHz analogue scope.

There is both good and bad in the new scopes, being a user of both I
must say that I apprechiate them for diffrent things. My Tek 546 with
4-channel module is great for much of the audio stuff, but I also
learned to enjoy the sampling and single-shot stuff out of modern
scopes. The higher speed also lends itself to debugging stuff that
used to be tricky... also, my Tek scopes are begining to show age in
switches and all that. Few modern scopes has a propper scaleable
timebase, even if I liked that 100G samples/s HP scope for it's very
innovative timebase... makes wonders compared to most sampling scopes.

Cheers,
Magnus