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

[Mike Willegal <mike@willegal.net>]

Most of the more common tubes can still be found.  If you don't use it, 
it will probably be harder to bring back to life, when you or someone 
else finally tries to turn it on ten or twenty years from now.  Caps and 
other parts can fail even without use. The best way to keep an old piece 
of gear in operating condition is to use it and maintain it.    There is 
a great yahoo group called TekScopes for folks that use these old critters.

Regards,
Mike Willegal

nyder wrote:
> I have an Vacuum Tube Tektronix 585a, dual traces.
>
> Would it work better for this then a more modern one?
>
> I've always been interested in using an oscilloscope in this manner,
> since I read thats how they got the first game, space wars (forget
> it's name) displaying.
>
> 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.
>
> really small display though.