[Boatanchors] Scope "Gifts"

[J. Forster]

These days, if it's not digital with a USB port, you can't give them away.

-John

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> Hi Folks,
>
> The story about giving the scope to the kid made me think of something I
> did a couple of years ago.
>
> Back in 2000-2005 (when they were dirt-cheap on E-Pay), I "adopted" a
> lot of Tektronix scopes and related test equipment orphans.  I was
> really into 453A's and 454A's for a while.  Back then, you could buy
> questionable 454A's for $30 or so.  I must have bought a half dozen or
> more of them.  Most of them I fixed up and got working again by using a
> couple of the really rough ones for parts donors.  Anyway, there was a
> college kid working at the local electronics emporium between semesters
> of EE school.  He was a bright kid and knew I rescued "orphans", so one
> day he asked me if I knew of anyplace he could find a decent scope to
> take back to school with him.  I had a couple of working 454A's that I
> wasn't using (my main scope is a Tek 7904A plugin scope), so I took one
> of them over to the store and told him Merry Christmas.  He asked me how
> much, and when I told him it was his, you should have seen the look on
> his face!  Sometime later, he told me some of his friends and classmates
> had cheap Taiwanese plastic scopes, but everyone always compared their
> results to his.
>
> Sometimes it's just a blast helping a bright kid out!  Made my whole day!
>
> 73,
> Mike, WB0LDJ
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