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When talking about strange oscilloscopes, does somebody use scopes made by Tesla in Czechoslovakia? I mean people living in developed western countries like Australia, USA, Germany, France, or so... This BM566A beast was in production in the late 1980s. It has quite small screen. The scope is full of steel, so it has weight of 30 kilograms or so. It has no cursors, readouts, or anything advanced.
I know very little about it, I just want it :-)
Quote from: bingo600 on April 10, 2014, 09:01:09 pmI have an Iwatsu ds-8608aBoth analog & digital w. gpib.What is your opinion of it? Worth getting?
I have an Iwatsu ds-8608aBoth analog & digital w. gpib.
4.1. AUTOSET• AUTOSET/ABORT light On: when the User presses on the AUTOSET key (4), the oscilloscopesearches for the vertical sensitivity, the horizontal sweep speed and trigger conditions that willdisplay the signals present at the CH1 and CH2 inputs.NOTE: If there is no signal, the oscilloscope will keep the ranges indicated by the manual verticalsensitivity switches (5) - (11) and the timebase switch (15).• AUTOSET/ABORT indicator flashes: the AUTOSET light flashes if the ranges found byAUTOSET are not the same as the ranges indicated by the sensitivity and timebase switches.The ranges found by AUTOSET can be found by turning switches (5) (11) and (15) in the directionshown by the corresponding blue arrows closest to the two illuminated coupling or source lights.The corresponding two lights go OFF when the manual sensitivity or timebase switch changesto the position found by AUTOSET. The AUTOSET/ABORT light goes OFF when all AUTOSETpositions have been found.
Quote from: Hydrawerk on February 01, 2013, 12:19:23 amIt reminds me the computer-like oscilloscopes made by HP in late 80s... This design was probably not much succesful and later they returned to traditional design with many encoder knobs. I guess you're talking about the first gen HP 54500 series. Great scopes. I still have a 54510A (2Ch 250MHz 1GSa/s on each channel, 8k memory) as a secondary scope. The single dial button system takes a bit getting used to but after that I think it's good. Most parameters can also be keyed in via the keypad which at least for me is much quicker than turning a know.
It reminds me the computer-like oscilloscopes made by HP in late 80s... This design was probably not much succesful and later they returned to traditional design with many encoder knobs.
I think the Iwatsu DS-6121 have a very strange user interface. It was probably considered the coolest thing on a digital scope, the future of interfaces.. But CRT is controlled by old style knobs, same type as Iwatsu used on many of their earlier scopes.Check it out here: http://www.grandpas-shack.com/parts/image/DS-6121A(IWATSU)UN_panel2.jpg
I suspect he is referring to the first generation of HP non-sampling oscilloscopes, which were in a case very similar to the HP 1611A logic analyser in this picture. They really looked like a small computer of the day. It was a 2 channel 6 bit 200M sample/second/channel machine. I can't find anything about them on the web now, but they were very popular among the engineers I knew. Mostly because it was the first time you could end a storage oscilloscope's capture on a trigger event. I can't remember the model number, but I think it should be in the 54xxx range.