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tautech:

--- Quote from: james_s on March 21, 2023, 06:45:26 pm ---Where are you finding TDS210 scopes cheap? They've always been overpriced IMO, I don't recall ever seeing a bargain on one. Good working analog scopes are getting a lot harder to come by too, they're almost all more than 20 years old now.

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100 %

The newbie is a little foolish if they overlook a reasonably modern DSO.
At some point in our scope apprenticeships we have all needed guidance which is where capturing a screenshot to USB is so so convenient. In it after little description we can see a waveform capture and if done with some care all the important scope settings.
When I brought my first, a Tek TDS2012B, some years before Siglent came into my life, USB screenshots was a nonnegotiable feature required.
Nice DSO it was too but soon you require more than the pitiful memory depth old DSO's offered.

tautech:

--- Quote from: jonpaul on March 21, 2023, 07:26:23 pm ---I would avoid the Chinese digital scopes.

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Of course you would, being from another age where all that was available was CRO's.
We live in a vastly different age today.

2N3055:

--- Quote from: jonpaul on March 21, 2023, 07:26:23 pm ---I would avoid the Chinese digital scopes.

A beginner can easily find a 2 ch 10..50 MHz vintage analog scope for $/€ 25..100.

Hameg, Philips, Tektronix HP.

We found a,Hameg HM103 in Paris at a flea market is €5, ans another Hameg, HM203 at a,street market forward €25

Both still,working

Jon

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And I would avoid old crap that I spend more time repairing then using...
Even a good, working, 100MHz analog CRT scope is today outclassed on so many levels by these "Chinese" entry level scopes...

People today that are learning how to use scope need to know how to use scopes of today and tomorrow. Not how it was done 40 years ago..
You and I have warm and fuzzy memories of how magical it was to use your first Tek scope in those days. That is all. It's nostalgia. Of the time long gone...
Sorry...  I miss those simpler days too...

nctnico:
Agreed. No need for the old crap. When visiting my parents I like to see my first analog scope still sitting in my old and what is now my father's electronics lab but I'd hate having to use it again. My 2nd scope was a DSO and I never looked back.

james_s:
I love my analog scope and still use it sometimes, and when they were cheap and easy to find I would often advise beginners start with one but that was 10-20 years ago and things have changed. Analog scopes aren't nearly as easy to find as they used to be, especially good working ones. Some of the better ones have achieved collectible status and prices have gone up a bit. The better Chinese DSOs are very good for what they cost.

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