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"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote in message 
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> Some companies do that. Like Instek where I bought a scope a while ago. It 
> has rather interesting features over and above of what the "big two" offer.

Yes, I remember you seemed rather happy with that purchase.  Which model did 
you get again?

I like what the cleverscope.com guys have to offer, although I do wish they'd 
go above 100MHz (but I guess I'm spoiled when 400MHz 2465s have been around 
forever and it's been more than a decade since I've had anything less than 
500MHz digital readily available at work).

That Instek GSP-830 spectrum analyzer is looking nice, although they want 
$5,400 for it.

> Also a fast PC connection that really helps guys over 40 like me.

Hmm... and here I was thinking was a useful and inexpensive display/control 
something like a Nokia N800 (800x480 4.1" LCD, 
http://www.mobilegazette.com/nokia-n800-n76-n93i-6161nfc.htm -- runs Linux, 
dirt cheap at $220) or Windows Mobile-based PDA (the ones with 640x480 LCDs... 
320x240 is a little crude, as the Tek TDS2000 series of scopes demonstrates) 
would be.

>Now if they just hadn't picked those bonbon colors as channel identifiers ...

Yeah, most test equpment sure doesn't "look" like test equipment anymore these 
days.

John Larkin's stuff still does. :-)

---Joel