Yeah the analogue storage ones were marginally worse than the early digital storage ones. I don’t think DSOs got usable decent until the 54600 and early TDS machines came out either. I have been told the old tek tube based storage ones are nice but I suspect that’s selection bias.
Attempted to sort my transistor stock out this evening and failed miserably resulting in millions of little bags all over everything. Going to bed ![Indifferent :=\](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/indifferent0023.gif.pagespeed.ce.nyXMDasYXd.gif)
I do have a couple of Tek 464s and they weren't difficult to work with. The gripes they have are common to all Teks of that era: the attenuator switches get worn out with decades of use.
I agree that until the 546xx series, the analog ones had the winning side.
The fun side of those two is that I bought a cosmetically OK but non-working one as a parts mule but when it arrived, it worked kind of fine (just an awful bend on the back chassis done by the Post orcs).
Almost 15 years later, the horizontal logic controller chip (made of unobtanium, as it was to be expected) gave up the smoke on me. I haven't yet lost my faith on it and I'm trying to reverse-engineer the workings of that golden-legged insect.