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From: rainer@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rainer Malzbender)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: O'scopes
Summary: Recommendations wanted
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Date: 10 May 91 21:08:50 GMT
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I recently did some work with an HP 54501A digitizing scope. It appeared
like a nice product, but the owners said it wasn't very accurate. Hooking
it up to a voltage reference apparently gave readings that were off by
more than what you'd expect from the 8-bit A/D. I personally didn't check
this.

Now I am considering purchasing the newer HP54601 scope. Of course, I plan
to check these things out before buying, but I was wondering if net people
could send me their opinions on this beastie, or comparable units (say,
scopes under or around $3K - Philips, Tek, etc.)

Send email and I'll summarize if there's enough interest.

--
Rainer Malzbender
Dept. of Physics (303)492-6829 
U. of Colorado, Boulder         rainer@boulder.colorado.edu 128.138.240.246