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Why did Tektronix stop making the great scopes?
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Ecklar:
Why did Tektronix stop making scopes like the venerable 2465 or 2465B?   What changed?   With the recent EEVBLOG tear down exposing the solid build and ability it seems like Tek could have updated with a little modern tech and kept improving these things.  Some may say that the rise of the digital caused the demise but I'm hearing all over the place just how great the analog scopes are and that the digital can't replace the feel and response.   So if they are so great then why doesn't Tek or someone else use modern tech, and cheap Chinese labor and grind out these scopes at one quarter the price?

Eck

Or were they really not that great and we are just like babying old English sportscars?  You you?  They're fun and we love them but the modern stuff is just more dependable and funtionable. 
Rerouter:
I'm going only from memory so it may not be all correct,

I heard that it was an ownership change, from an engineer to a standard CEO type, so money was diverted from R&D into marketing and sales, for an already stong brand,
As well that they started to rebrand things,
miguelvp:
Can't find the 2465B list price but the 2467B with a different CRT cost in 1990 was $13,045

Source:
http://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/2467

So think of how cheap they are now taking into account inflation (around $24,100 in 2014 money)

larry42:
Because there is no way to make these for the 300 USD price point. Not enough market for high quality CRTs to make a 100$ Bill of materials. Shipping costs. Oh, and sever lack of functionality.

I love (and use) old test equipment. But there is no market for 300MHz analog scopes.
Richard Crowley:
The Tektronix campus is practically a ghost town anymore.  More and more of the buildings appear to be leased (or sold?) to other companies.
I doubt that the master craftspeople who made the CRTs are even around anymore.
Does ANY modern equipment still use CRT technology?
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