stever@mit-eddie.UUCP (Stephen Robbins) (09/12/85)
[NOTE: I am not on net.analog, and I am using someone else's account to even post this query. THEREFORE, please reply to FONER at MIT-MC to respond to this message. I will probably NOT see any responses which are followups to this note.] I have an opportunity to buy a cheap, used oscilliscope, for my personal use (not a lab, which would of course buy a new one). I need to know whether the offer is reasonable, since I don't have ready access to the various scope catalogs that have come in recently (they're all buried somewhere miles away from here, as it turns out). I have a choice of three (all include two 10:1 probes, bag, and booklets): a Tek 453 for $300 (in okay condition) 455 for $500 (50 MHz, dual trace, delayed sweep, okay) 465B for $1200 (100 MHz, DT, DS, looks pretty new) Are these prices reasonable? What could I get new for $300, $500, or $1200? I have a choice of scopes in each of the above categories, so I can get one that is undamaged (they were lab scopes that students used). Thanx for any light people can shed on this. Remember to reply to my ARPAnet address <FONER at MIT-MC>, and not as a followup. At worst (you can't send through the Berkeley gateway or whatever), reply to ...!mit-charon!foner (presumably reachable by whatever path this used to get to you from mit-eddie). <LNF>