HP 54615B Startup?

[TheAdmiralty]

Morning everyone!  Quick question.  I'm in the market for a oscilloscope with >=500MHz bandwidth for a few high(er) speed FPGA projects... would rather not spend $4,0000 on something new and so I'm looking at older models.  I see a decent deal on an HP 54615B (500MHz, 1GS/s) being sold as-is, but I've got absolutely zero experience with these older HP digitizing o'scopes... The only picture I see is of the splash screen with "No module installed" indicated at the bottom.

Now, I'm sure someone who's used these can answer this pretty quickly, but is this just a status message at boot, or is this thing going to show up without an RF front end (or some other mission critical component)?  Maybe a stupid question, but I frankly don't know squat about most scopes other than the relatively new Agilents.

Thanks! 

[elecman14]

The no modules installed refers to plugin modules that attach to the back of the scope. From the marketing literature "Optional expansion modules for FFT, waveform storage, and remote control".

[TheAdmiralty]

That would make sense... I actually just went down during lunch to ask our inventory room and we had an original manual for the 54616B in the office and it looks like you're right.

Now it's down to this or a LeCroy 9354TM.  Old scopes, but plenty for my purposes.