[Test-Equipment] Re: Oscilloscopes

[David DiGiacomo]

>IMO, the 7104 is an orphan, so that's easy to eliminate.

I'm not sure why it's more of an orphan than the other 7000 series scopes.
If you need a CRT, R7103s are usually pretty cheap.

>The 7834 is nice if you need a fast storage scope. They are very nice, unless
>you have CRT problems. Getting another may be really hard. Not a common scope,
>BTW. It will do one-shot stuff the 7854 and 7633 will not. It's a true two beam
>scope with analog storage.

According to the manual, the 7834 is a single beam scope.
I believe the 7844 is the only dual beam 7000 series mainframe.

>When designing an inverter, I put transistor collector voltage on one trace,
>current on another and computed point-by-point power dissipation to aid in
>tweaking the switching circuit. Very useful.

That's a great idea.