Storage scopes were available well before the 24xx series. I used one in the 70s, and they weren't a new concept then.
Of course they were a pain to use, but it took a surprisingly long time for analogue storage scopes to be completely supplanted by digitising storage scopes.
Let me guess - Nicolet?
I was aware of but never touched Nicolet. ISTR they didn't have reputation for allowing you to do your job.
I thought Nicolet made great Mid-IR Spectrometers. Of course... in later years I got the ABB Bomem NIR and Mid-IR tanks to work with and of course NIR almost entirely. I still have withdrawals from spectrometers, programming, standards, statistical analysis and chemometrics.
The electronics and RF engineering studies (mainly only reading, watching videos and asking questions for now... with a few problems) with the new RF modules (AD603, AD8307, AD8362, AD8317, HMC189, AD831, BFG135, AD9850, Si5351A, a range of attenuators, various NARDA directional couplers and two other brands, an RF bridge, a SET duplexer mixer and even a generic dual balanced mixer RFin=1.5-4.5GHz RFout=DC-1.5GHz) especially just looking and touching the Pacific Measurements 1038 kit really feels good. The RG316 pigtails came in the mail yesterday so I can prototype with those before I solder some RG402 cables tuned with SMA connectors for the final designs. Feels good.
I even picked up some free items I found online and had an easy Eureka cyclonic vacuum cleaner model AS1104 repair that I was planning to part out and put some of the pieces into a trash container or bucket shop vac design with a gamma seal lid... and the thing only needed cleaning thoroughly and I think other than added weight and less maneuverability... performs better than the Dyson DC25 which is more a pain with the cord and switching to use the hose.
I'm ready to tear apart an HP free printer or two I picked up also and stare down some components to see if I can get motivated to make a CNC Arduino controlled multi machine... router, laser, printer, etc. Thinking the router/laser will be handy to make stripline, microstrip and PCB components with. I was thinking the scanner glass might not be a bad donor for a solar panel build too for a weather station I need to update from my previous skill set design capabilities.