MSO7104 Mixed signal 4 Analog + 16 Digital 1Ghz /4Gs with all licences installed.. (I2c / SPI / deep memory / etc ) bought used.. New price ... over 20K$ ... paid .. i'm not telling.. you'd all get depressed and cry ...
54832D Infiniium 4 analog + 16 digital 1GHz / 4Gs 8Meg deep per channel with FPGa licence and Logic analyzer linkup. New price unknown but well over 30K$ ... paid 1200$ had a broken LCD panel according to seller. Turned out it was the graphics card and not the LCD .. CT6555 based panl. one fried tantalum cap ... fixed in 5 minutes
54831A Inifiniium 4 analog 600MHz 4Gs/s 64meg deep memory . new price unknown. probably an arm and a leg (because of the memory depth) ... paid 500$ for it. harddisk was nuked. new drive , install recovery disk , enter licence keys. -> works.
and the kicker :
16702B logic analyzer mainframe , option 03 , three 16740a blades and a 16520 pattern generator. New price : well over 120K$ ... paid .. 300$ ...
There's a story behind this one.
This listed on ebay for 1$. Local pickup only... listed for 3 days.I lost it initially. I get a phone call the day after since i was only the second person bidding. The first bidder couldn't make it, he had to drive up and would not make it in time .. huh ? Turns out this was a company that was relocating to a new building about 50 miles away. The listing ended on a thursday and pickup had to be on friday.. as it was their last day in the building. This company made asics for network systems but stopped a couple of years ago. they now licence their software stacks and develop these. While dismantling their office they found this machine in a closet , wrapped in a plastic bag. Nobody there knew what it was , only that it had belonged to the hardware people that all were let go about 4 years ago ... So they decided to auction it off. The money would be used to buy a new multifunction laserpinter ( scanner copier fax printer ) for the new officce. The other bidder wanted to give 400$. I told 300$ and got it.
i opened it up , not a speck of dust inside... even the fan blades were eerily clean. this machine probably has run a few days in its lifetime. one of these things that were bought when they were a startup just because they thought they might need it...
I got it linked through the network to my infiniium scope. The analyser can sync trigger with the scope , grab the analog trace data and visualise together with the trace patterns.
The machine itself runs HP/UX and exposes itself as an X-windows Host. I run an Xserver under wind7 on a local PC and use that as 'workstation'.
i have all the cables pods and other gizmos. the real kicker is i contacted agilent for the latest firmware. they sent me the install cd for free. So it is fully up to date ( the machine is still supported , although out of production and replaced by the 16900 series.
I don't use it a lot but it sure beats all those 'usb based' thingies like USBee , Salae, zeroplus and the OPen Logic Sniffer. Very handing when mucking about with FPGA's. just hook up the FPGA probe ( i have the licence for the Altera probe on the scope, since they 'talk' the LA benefits from this too ) and you can poke around inside the FPGA at full throttle.
there's a picture of my setup in the 'show your workbench section