digital oscope suggestions? <500$?

Docedison:
In all the years I worked for a living I never saw a digital scope that I liked... the digitizing artifacts annoy me somehow. I own a Tektronics 2213 dual trace 60 Mhz BW scope that I used (not the same one) for 10 years at work and except for the sample storage of a good digital scope I don't miss or want one. It was my experience that failures i that required Digital O'scopes could have been better engineered from the start. On the 3 or 4 times I thought I needed and in fact rented and used... A more carful read of the data sheets and some common sense was the fix and the scope was of little use except to verify what I already knew... I'd made a design error or worse forgot a bypass capacitor or placed it too far from the noise source.

Doc

Just out of curiosity, were you working predominantly with digital or analog circuitry in your work? The reason I ask is that I to think analog scopes work better than digital when dealing with analog circuits. For digital, though, I do prefer them over the tricks that were needed to see certain types of problems; ie, using a trigger circuit to snap a photograph of the path trace... :slight_smile: