I was watching it and the Oscilloscopes – Tektronix 2465B, AWA G232 didn;t show up. Maybe they might be on later ?
A lot of the specialist video stuff seem to attract very little interest. Not a large marker for used Vectorscopes I guess
Arrrrrgh! There were vectorscopes there too? I actually spent years working as a professional video equipment design eng, and I don't have a modern vectorscope. Ffff... wait, this forum probably doesn't allow swearing, right?
I guess for commercial applications, digital video has pretty much eliminated the need for vectorscopes. But still... Damn.
That's the trouble with Australia. There are various <expletive-stupid> economic and political systems in place that prevent most surplus tech-gear from ever being sold 2nd hand after its commercial life. So there are no established outlets for any that does somehow make it to public sale. Instances like this sale are so rare that it's hard to stay alert for them.
It's a nice place to live, but the 2nd hand tech gear situation is like the central area of the country - a total desert. This is one of my pet peeves, because it doesn't have to be this way. It's purely a result of insane bureaucracy and regulations. For instance:
* Import duty. The government charges significant duty on imports. Once a company has finished an equipment's depreciation cycle, they can get a refund by having the gear crushed in the presence of a tax inspector.
* Insurance. If a piece of gear is damaged and the company claims a write off on insurance, they have to destroy the gear, not sell it.
* Depreciation. After the company accountants have reduced the equipment's book value to zero over it's originally planned working life, then to them it really is worth zero, so how can they account for anything they might receive for selling it? So they destroy it.
* Trade ins. Distributors of high end test gear like Hewlett Packard, Tektronix etc, see any piece of their gear that makes it to a 2nd hand sale, as one more bit of new gear they didn't sell. So they offer attractive trade-in deals on their old models. The traded-in gear mostly they destroy.
* Military 'secrets'. Most of the obsoleted tech equipment from the Aus. military gets conscientiously destroyed. Because you know, 'secret stuff'. I guess the accountants there don't know the difference between custom gear and commercially available test equipment.
* Ignorance. Most Australian company managers are non-technical business/accounting types. Who have no comprehension of the rarity and intrinsic worth of technical gear. To them such surplus gear is just a disposal problem, and they know nothing of any possible avenues for 2nd hand sale. So, to landfill with it!
All these insanities I've personally seen happen over and over during my working life. It's heartbreaking.
I've also grown convinced over the years that there really is some kind of deliberate high level conspiracy here to keep such equipment out of the public's hands. I could think of a few reasons why that might be, but really have nothing solid.
You don't know how lucky you are in the US, with your numerous 2nd-hand tech sellers.
Ha. Not that I have much spare cash now anyway.