Oscilloscope question

[Tom Jennings]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:

> The Tek 7000 series scopes are really, really, undervalued these days
> for what they represent.

The problem with all of these older Tek devices, as pretty much
everyone who uses them for some time discovers, is that they soon
enough die of electromechanical issues -- the switches get touchy,
intermittent, then die -- and are essentially unrepairable.

It's too bad, as the 465's and the 7xxx's are fine scopes, and the
lowest-cost good quality scope I know of (the DSO Tek
table-radio-sized jobs, TDS-???), 60 MHz/100MHz, run close to
$900.