Sadly doesn’t work anymore as it was dropped and damaged. Found it at an ewaste site with the idea to build an ITX pc inside with a little DIY digital oscilloscope replacing the screen connected to the audio out so you can see the wave form as you listen to music or play games
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Man, oscilloscopes are fuckin beautiful. The blue screen looks really pretty against the other colors
Sadly doesn’t work anymore as it was dropped and damaged.
Electronics that old are often pretty repairable…
Yeah that’s another reason that I haven’t taken it apart yet because we get a guy once a year come to our lab that calibrated oscilloscopes for us and said this one is super easy to fix and he has parts for them if I ever reach out to him
They were designed to be repairable! The manuel shows you how to open everything up. I two very similar ones. (465 with a digital memory and a 475 and checked some manuals online. They’re pretty extensive.
Very cool. I’ve got an HP 1740a, which is pretty similar. The 1740a was introduced in 1967. Mine was dumpster dived from just outside the physics department building at a local university. I was lucky that the only issue it had was just that the power button sticks a little bit. It’s barely a problem. I haven’t used it as much as I ought to. I really ought to do more hardware hacking projects.
I originally wanted one to do or see oscilloscope music
If you’re ever in Beaverton, Oregon there’s the Tektronix museum
My friend’s father has a working one of these. He’s big time into amateur radio, and his garage looks like a 1980’s movie mission control.
Be careful, I’m assuming it’s a CRT in there. If you know what you’re doing then don’t let me stop you, but the capacitors and tubes can be dangerous.
BTDT. Nasty burn
