[Boatanchors] Scope "Gifts"

[Pete Lancashire]

I just suddenly got a lot older ....

I was going to reply as to how someone who gave me a 'scope when I was 12
but I got interrrupted.

The college student room mate of the ripe old age of 23 came in to the
kitchen as I was packing up 4 tubes to send to someone from all the old
test equipment I've been scrapping.

He picked one up and had that 'what the heck is this' look. Yep he did not know
what a vacuum tube is.

sigh ...

-pete





On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Michael D. Harmon <mharmon at att.net> wrote:
> 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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