"Adam Stouffer" wrote in message
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Bret Ludwig wrote:
The old Tek scopes are either too much work to keep going, or have
mostly been used so heavily they are no longer usable. There are no
more parts for DESIRABLE Tek scopes! Tek has not made an actual
oscilloscope in nearly ten years and the last ones (the TAS series)
were crude and nearly unusable.


Hehe I had one and thought about trying to get it back into shape for
audio work. Then I saw the sticker on the plugin with a calibration date
due for 1965. $200-300 on ebay will get you something decent. In fact if
you ebayed all the ceramic terminal strips in a tek scope you could
probably pay for a newer one.

The last generation of Tek tube scopes, the 544, 546 and 547 had a solid
state vertical section and actually hold up pretty well, but the CRTs are 35
years old! The older stuff though is really tough to bring back from the
grave. Especially the ones with the distributed vertical amps!