On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:24:50 +0000, Invisible wrote:

>>> Yeah, well, that's a digital replica. I'm talking about the real
>>> osciliscopes with the large CRT display and so forth.
>> 
>> You're talking about older hardware, then.  A digital oscilloscope that
>> provides the functionality would be sufficient for many uses.  We used
>> to have one of the CRT-based ones you're talking about in my high
>> school electronics lab, though - they're not all that expensive either.
> 
> The item linked has a grainy little display that isn't going to show you
> a lot. Maybe that mostly doesn't matter, but I imagine for many
> applications you'd need rather higher resolution than that.

It's not hard to find something with higher resolution that's not 
thousands of pounds.

You're getting hung up on the details of one device and missing the 
larger picture that a usable device doesn't cost what you claimed.

Jim

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