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Why did Tektronix stop making the great scopes?
Jaak:
Yes, Danaher killed Tek. I was at Tek from 2000 to 2012 and went through the painful experience of seeing excellent engineers and resources removed by Danaher, effectively destroying Tek's competitive advantages and leading edge expertise. My major customer was AMD (former ATI in Canada), and when you get answers like "We have to prioritize what we work on" and see technology innovation and customer response times balloon, you start asking questions. Danaher screwed Tek and it seemed they wanted to turn it in to a Fluke where they just milked the brand for profit, instead of being a bleeding edge innovator.
It was painful to experience at the leading edge. Especially when you were used to "I need a PCI express GenX solution to test some hardware" before Intel was even past simulation of it. The evaporation of development sucked to watch.
Double whammy, I was in Hewlett-Packard Test and Measurement when the Real HP was spun off as Agilent. That sucked huge too. We had to practice saying the new name, it was weird. It wasn't revealed and the new company was just called NewCo until the name was announced. (At which point one of the inside guys said, hey, anagram of Agilent is genital, now I know why we feel this way...)
But Hey, my love for the real HP and Pre Danaher Tek lives on!
Martin72:
--- Quote ---(At which point one of the inside guys said, hey, anagram of Agilent is genital, now I know why we feel this way...)
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:-DD
coppice:
--- Quote from: Jaak on January 21, 2024, 01:23:20 pm ---Yes, Danaher killed Tek.
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Did they kill Tek, or just buy it cheap because it was already falling into a bad state? Both Tektronix and HP were hit badly by the end of the cold war, and the reduction in their lucrative defence sales. HP recovered. I'm not sure Tek ever did.
slugrustle:
My coworker loves the MSO 6 series he's been using at work lately. I haven't used it myself, but the TPP1000 (10x, 1Ghz, 10MΩ, <4pF, 300V) and TPP0502 (2x, 500MHz, 2MΩ, 12.7pF, 300V) passive scope probes look simply incredible. I don't know how they do it. At first, I assumed the 1GHz probes were active, but then I pulled the datasheet.
I'm really happy with my Siglent SDS2000X+ scope, but man, I wish it could use the passive Tek probes.
tautech:
--- Quote from: slugrustle on January 27, 2024, 03:48:41 am ---I'm really happy with my Siglent SDS2000X+ scope, but man, I wish it could use the passive Tek probes.
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The 10x 350 MHz SP2035A and 500 MHz SP5050A autosense SDS2000X Plus probes are nice and a step up from those supplied with the 100 and 200 MHz models. Their timmers are in the BNC so they can be miniaturized some.
https://siglentna.com/product/sp2035a-auto-sense-350-mhz-oscilloscope-probes/
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