Visiting a surplus shop today, I found a small herd of Tek Oscilliscopes. Some
of them looked pretty old to me. They want real money for them too. Details:
Model Mod 1 Mod 2 Cart
----- ----- ----- -----
564 3C66 2B67
564 3A74 2B67 Y
504 Y
561A 3A72 2B67
5111 5A20N 5B10N
515A Y
549 1a1 Y
D11 5A14N 5B10N Y
504
564B 3A9 3B4
Prices were originally $200 for most of them, except the 549, which was $400.
Some of them had been marked down to $100. They have some kind of automatic
decrease in price based on how long things stay in the store (1% per day?),
but most of them have been there only since late February. And I don't know
how that effects the ones that were "manually" marked down.
I suspect these prices are outlandish. The same place wants $25 for 2400
baud modems. :-) Anyway, the age-based discount may eventually make the
prices more reasonable. At least for the scopes, if not the modems.
The ones marked "Y" under "Cart" had a "Scope-Mobile" cart
with them. But I
didn't think to get model numbers from those.
Oh, and I can't guarantee that these work. I didn't ask if they would allow
me to test them, and at present I don't know enough to be able to test them
anyway. I also can't guarantee that they'll still be there when I next visit.
Questions:
0. How old are these guys?
1. Are any of these potentially useful for computer work? Can they handle the
frequencies used in old machines, say, up to a few MHz? (Judging from their
apparent age, I wouldn't hope for much more than that.)
2. Anybody want one? Be aware that in addition to the price tag, I wouldn't
expect these guys to be easy or cheap to ship. (At least one time in the
past I have had to back out of a deal because I couldn't arrange shipping
within cost & safety constraints.) And the carts are probably too big to
go through UPS or USPS. Given all that, if you want one, let me know.
Cheers,
Bill.