On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 12:56:45 -0800 "Joel Kolstad"
wrote:

I am going to get myself a nice 2465B or perhaps a 2467 after finish school
and find myself a Real Job again -- in a sense those scopes seem like the
pinnacle of pure-analog scope development and even if they are only good to
400MHz, there'll continue to be plenty of designs that can be serviced by
such scopes for years to come.

I had to smile when I read this. I realize that there certainly are
jobs out there which require this kind of bandwidth, but I think for
the vast majority of us, 20MHz is more than enough.

I know that I often pull the 20 MHz bandwidth limit switch on my 465B,
just to quiet down the noise, and I actually have a 10 MHz scope which
is still extrememly useful.

It's nice to know that the extra bandwidth is there, but for almost
any servicing job (TV, radio, CD, DVD, audio...) 50 MHz is way more
than enough.

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Jim Adney
Madison, WI 53711 USA
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