Picked up a free scope today. A humble BWD 539A. Needs a bit of a wipe down on the outside, but looks decent. As bonus, it has an asset tag from the University of NSW, which means it could easily have been on campus when I was.
Not turned it on yet ... will be opening it up first. That's a job for the next day or three.
The story of how it made its way out of the Uni is lost to time - but the person I collected it from told me of the hand he had in its provenance. There was an estate being cleared with various bits of equipment being - quite literally - tossed out. He was helping in this endeavour, with some reservations about some of the things being dumped. While he was not into electronics, he had enough appreciation of these things that when he came upon this scope, he just could not toss it. He rescued it and has been with him for the last year.
He recently began a clean-up and wanted to find this scope a home where it would be appreciated, so he took the make and model and plugged it into a Google search. He found a discussion about the model on the EEVblog where it seemed hopeful someone could have an interest. He then joined for the purpose of posting this under the Buy/Sell/Wanted section ... and now it sits beside me.
Of interest is the heavy stranded wire poking out the back that has been cut. This is really heavy duty steel with a woven fibre core. My guess is it was a security thing.
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