Roy Lewallen wrote:
These days, the features are decided mainly by marketers and upper
level managers, few of whom ever spent any time actually using a scope.

An un-named source working for H-P/ Agilent totally agrees with that!

He also added:
"The founder of Tek invented the triggered timebase and offered it to
Hewlett-Packard. Bill and Dave saw the value but were committed to doing
other things for their near future and suggested he start his own firm,
giving him some advice along the way."



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73 from Ian G3SEK 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek