Re: Anybody with an oscilloscope as an Apple II display?

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <eca20519-9b5f-45ca-adbb-4646646deb8e@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com>,
nyder  <nyder.23@gmail.com> wrote:
>I have an Vacuum Tube Tektronix 585a, dual traces.
>
>Of course, i'm sort of scared to turn it on, since I don't want to
>lose any vacuum tubes.  It was working when i got it, so it should
>still be working.

Tubes are more rugged than that, especially if they aren't run on the ragged
edge of performance.  I tuned up an old RCA radio from the early '50s about
10 years ago.  I think it needed one or two tubes (out of five) replaced
when I bought it, but it's been running fine on the replacements (and the
remaining, possibly factory-installed tubes) since then, running for an hour
or two every weekday morning (it's plugged into an X10 appliance module,
which is switched on/off by a cron job on my Mac mini :-) )

(I have the rackmount version of your scope, plus one of the 545
models...picked up both of them at a swapmeet for $20.  The 545 needs just a
probe for it to be useful, but the RM585 came with some unusual plugin
that's not as useful for general-purpose use.)

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