11 Jun
2006
11 Jun
'06
9:41 a.m.
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Jim Beacon wrote:
I have a few large Tek scopes (585, 545A, 545B, 547,
541, 535A, 515A and
502A), as well as a couple of later models (561, 564, 564B and a 647). I
I, too, have several large scopes in our museum here. Originally we didn't
want to start collecting such items, but being radio/tube enthusiats (me
and Klemens) we couldn't let them to the junk. You just can't imagine what
can still be found at our university (and others probably too). So now we
have a 536 incl. several plugins, a 535A, 547, 502, 555 and 549. BTW I
found four big Tek carts, too, which aren't easy to find today.
difficult to maintain, but are more convenient in the
workshop. What I'd
really like is a 549, if anyone with in a 100 miles of London has one they
no longer want :-)
If that's the storage scope then we have it (and it works!) :-)) It came
with several plugins inclusive two sampling units.
To come back to computers, here's what we tried one day not long ago:
There's a (DECUS?) program for the PDP-8 that emulates a Tek 4014
terminal. It requires two serial ports, one to the host system and one to
the console terminal, and then a VC8e. It is intended to work with some
large screen storage scope but I simply hooked up the Tek 549. The host
was a Unix system (Sun 4/260) running GnuPlot (tek40xx). Now guess how it
worked... The screen on the scope is too small to read text, but graphics
are fine.
Christian
Jim:
Aren't you also a list member on vintage-radio.net? I've subscribed
to the list several weeks ago, too, in the need for some idea to get my
french HDTV set (819 lines, 11 MHz bandwidth) working again (with a
PC, Kat's RGB combiner and a modulator).