Tearing Down a Heavy Oscilloscope
Tearing Down A Heavy Oscilloscope 4 Comments by: Al Williams October 4, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy When [Thomas] showed his 1960s-era Tektronix 545A oscilloscope in a recent video, it made us both nostalgic and happy. Nostalgic because we miss the days when our oscilloscopes were “mainframes” that could take plug-in modules. Happy because we noticed the two handles on top to manage hauling the almost 70 pounds of tubes, transformers, and glass around if you didn’t have the requisite cart.
- ▪Tearing Down A Heavy Oscilloscope 4 Comments by: Al Williams October 4, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy When [Thomas] showed his 1960s-era Tektronix 545A oscilloscope in a recent video, it made us both nostalgic and happy.
- ▪Nostalgic because we miss the days when our oscilloscopes were “mainframes” that could take plug-in modules.
- ▪Happy because we noticed the two handles on top to manage hauling the almost 70 pounds of tubes, transformers, and glass around if you didn’t have the requisite cart.
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Tearing Down A Heavy Oscilloscope 4 Comments by: Al Williams October 4, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy When [Thomas] showed his 1960s-era Tektronix 545A oscilloscope in a recent video, it made us both nostalgic and happy. Nostalgic because we miss the days when our oscilloscopes were “mainframes” that could take plug-in modules. Happy because we noticed the two handles on top to manage hauling the almost 70 pounds of tubes, transformers, and glass around if you didn’t have the requisite cart. Not only did old scopes have plugins so you could reconfigure them, but there were also handy plugins and racks that could power them so you could build different test setups easily. This scope was an early version of that idea, but it only accepted a vertical section plugin.
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