Morning everyone! Quick question. I'm in the market for a oscilloscope with >=500MHz bandwidth for a few high(er) speed FPGA projects... would rather not spend $4,0000 on something new and so I'm looking at older models. I see a decent deal on an HP 54615B (500MHz, 1GS/s) being sold as-is, but I've got absolutely zero experience with these older HP digitizing o'scopes... The only picture I see is of the splash screen with "No module installed" indicated at the bottom.
Now, I'm sure someone who's used these can answer this pretty quickly, but is this just a status message at boot, or is this thing going to show up without an RF front end (or some other mission critical component)? Maybe a stupid question, but I frankly don't know squat about most scopes other than the relatively new Agilents.
Thanks!