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[@sgpch1983]

hmm.. maybe just give it back to the original owner.. would be a really good karma thing to do.

[@allesklarklaus147]

He doesn't believe in religion I think :D

[@sgpch1983]

im a atheist too.. but giving stuff back is moraly the right thing to do. dont you think?

[@noobingame9291]

After the whoever owned it before was ready to mash it instead of giving it away? This is April fools video btw.

[@sczygiel]

Yeah that would be my reaction as well :) There is a bussiness card and most likely it would be easy to track the owner to at least ask why it was dumped. But I will go with the aprils fool explanation :) I forgot they are sometime ahead of me :)

[@allesklarklaus147]

It was in the dumpster so he saved the poor scope from beeing shredded into little 32gig pieces :) In terms of morality it all depends on what model you choose and stuff. If the scope owner was throwing it out and dave really likes it how would it be moral if he gives it back? He would be really sad and the owner doesn't give a shit. If he kept it he would be happy and the owner still doesn't give a shit so option two would be overall better in that situation. If one follows the Bible or I. Kant steeling would be bad so giving it back is the right choice!

[@Sousanators]

Dave went and bought a $300k scope but said he "found" it so his wife doesnt kill him. What a hero.

[@chaos.corner]

Don't be so cynical. I found a sports motorcycle in the dumpster last week.

[@rodstartube]

lol, wives are the same everywhere

[@thekaiser4333]

If your wife does not like your oscilloscope, change your wife.

[@LifeOnHoth]

wife need calibration ;)

[@AdamCchannel]

Yup, gotta use that calibration port on the front panel every once in a while :D

[@akosbuzogany2752]

I started to consider moving to Australia. I will find a ranch, a house and wife in a dumpster.

[@TheCarpenterUnion]

Can buy all 3 with that scope

[@enysuntra1347]

Nah. Spouse in a dumpster may have all sorts of short circuits, software faults and hardware flaws. It's criminal you don't have to have mandatory Spouse insurance and a current service contract for them.

[@ArztvomDienst]

Haha your comment made my day! xD

[@baasbassinnababylonrobert-9963]

You can have my wife! Brand new!

[@agvulpine]

@@baasbassinnababylonrobert-9963 She's not legally your wife until you remove her from the packaging.

[@Barnacules]

That moment when you realize this was an April Fools joke :D

[@stage666]

haha we need more windows 10 vids pls!!

[@themrenerd7384]

Hey didn't expect you here

[@mbaker335]

A day early??????? "Published on 31 Mar 2017"

[@TheFlighteur]

mbaker335 it's because of Australia timezones, for Dave it was April the 1st

[@KrissBartlett]

no Jerry he is ridgy dige he is for real over the top personality hahhaha

[@branzombie]

I dug in dumpster but all I found was hepatitis

[@12388753]

I found a PS2 slim once

[@PolakeXD]

I only found a xbox 360 slim without hard drive but with 6 crappy games, a Porsche 911 posters, a lots of game cases without discs, fake galaxy s2, diving suit, a lot of paper and already activated Need for speed most wanted key : P Maybe because I visiting my uncle in the America only at summer...

[@mUbase]

I found a PS2 silver. Still got it. Don't know what to do with the bloody thing. I also found a nice 15" LCD TV with DVD player on the side, HDMI, Freeview and all the connections. It didn't work but I chased the fault to the power diodes and now it works fine. :)

[@luncheonticket]

open ps2 loader + smb = win

[@P-Bass_Pete]

I'll trade you for this AIDS needle sticking out of my foot!

[@svampebob007]

only 16Ghz on 4 channel? throw this shit away dave

[@EEVblog]

I know, right. Useless.

[@ikbendusan]

that's why it ended up in the trash

[@Slartibartfas042]

lol - might be OK-ish for checking output Voltage of a battery! ;-) But seriously - isn't that frequency range the domain where it more and more comes to spectrum analysers? Are there really that much applications for a scope at such high frequencies? Just wondering...(?)

[@Slartibartfas042]

Yes, I know in digital domain you would need multiples of the given frequency to check for signal integrity issues, as you have to respect all the harmonics up to at least 5 times the frequency you're providing your digital circuit, but is that really done this way? According to Fourier rectangular voltage output can be splitted into a sum of multiple signals being 1*V1+1/3*V3+1/5*V5+1/7*V7+....... with V3, V5, V7 and so on being some output of sine wave with a voltage of a 3rd, 5th, 7th or whatsoever of the base frequency output voltage. The higher the frequencies you do add to this sum, the closer you get to the rectangular voltage response. But is that in practice a way that is really used?

[@SilentGloves]

I have to admit, this is one of the few internet April fools gags that genuinely had me fooled, for at least a few hours, until I realized that it was April 1. Nicely done, Dave.

[@frankbuss]

"Hey Ed, our $300k scope doesn't turn on anymore." "Throw it in the dumpster, I'll sell you a new one."

[@EEVblog]

No flies on Ed

[@12voltvids]

Looking at the date I would think that this was an early April fools joke.

[@DarkNice1988]

"Hey look, I found me a new house in the dumpster"

[@SnabbKassa]

If that's Australian dollars, that wouldn't buy much of a house in the UK now.

[@hashtag-shaneiacs]

@@SnabbKassa it could buy three in Malaysia.

[@Mireaze]

Put doom on it!

[@JediNg135]

Underrated

[@macdonalds1972]

It has an onboard GPU, I doubt it will even run Doom 3.

[@ChozoSR388]

If you're not trying to be funny, your username fits a few days early, too lol

[@S.ASmith]

If it can run Win7 it can run Tiberium Sun if you really wanted. So it can definately run Doom.

[@qbasic16]

Age of Empires II

[@Eddy_AREA99]

Why don't we have such Dumpsters in the Netherlands ! Only thing I find in the dumpsters is trash :p I'm Curious Please try tapping it, for the microphonic test

[@EEVblog]

Forgot about that!

[@macdonalds1972]

Because the Dutch are too cheap to throw anything that's still working away.

[@CatNolara]

You just need to find them. At my german university there's some construction going on, some institutes are moving around and throw old stuff away that isn't worth keeping. There were some really cool things in the electronics container until now, especially some retro gear from the GDR.

[@RealButcher]

Well... I used to go from dumpster to dumpster... because they would throw all sorts of stuff away... Even here in Holland... yes sir... Found a lot next to the road... Unfortunately they do not have these "trash-days" anymore in the city... I would drive around that evening.... had my own route... Mostly that were fridges and washing-machines and dryers... and some smaller stuff .. like Vinyl records... and pots and pans.. I used to have a kind of a lorry car... with a big capacity... So... it still works .. :-)

[@dennisseuferling815]

I live in the US and a tactic I use is checking electronic and office store dumpster. I have never found anything like Dave here but I do pretty comfortably. My homes security system and cameras came from an office depot dumpster.

[@sergeyivanov3453]

Someone is looking at the empty bin and thinking: Where the f*ck is my scope which I prepared to take home at the evening?!

[@cherry.7199]

hahahaha happens to me all the time, the other day I left a microwave in the dumpster and wanted to take it home to realise that my neighbour took it home

[@codehustler]

so, this is what happened: someone from the company owning the scope manipulated the power plug and hoped to make a few bucks from selling it. Unfortunately for the poor guy, Dave spotted it before he finished his shift and recovered it.

[@themainproblem]

I'm super envious of your amazing find! If it were me I'd just put it on the bench and pet it and talk to it once in a while. :-)

[@sylviobianchi6231]

Dave man seriously you get me every time! good one! You have just gave me that little false hope i needed to continue dreaming that a find like this could actually happen... Keep up the good work mate!

[@ehsnils]

Regardless of it's a April Fools joke or not it's a pretty awesome device.

[@brokenforks]

This video is really about how to explain to your wife where you got a $300k scope.

[@agranero6]

It fell from the back of a truck, darling.

[@TheFurriestOne]

Oh no Dave, you ruined an employee's plan to embezzle this machine! ;D

[@jkepps]

Same thing I thought!

[@therugburnz]

Yeah, I've seen pallets of test gear at military surplus auctions only to find out the fuses had been changed to half amp fuses. Most of them needed two amps. I doubt more than one or two were bad considering the gavel price.

[@irishguy200007]

Watch the film. Employee Of The Month, where they are damaging stock so they get to bring them home for free.

[@AlJay0032]

My first thought

[@dmeemd7787]

Hahahahaha, yeah missing seals and a loose connector.. their best tech 'goes through it and it's fried' comes to get it later Granted people have done stupider things like throwing out a high quality piece of equipment without checking the fuse, people also have the car towed to the dealer because the battery is dead or is out of gas so... 🤷‍♂️ 😂😂

[@freman]

That squeaky noise you've been listening to for 14 minutes is Dave's mind exploding

[@embronxer]

Good April's fool joke, Dave! :)

[@zwz.zdenek]

This came out in March 31st. If it's a joke, it's poorly executed.

[@miyu4043]

It came out on March 31st for you. Dave is in Australia. The day starts a little bit earlier there. The wonders of time zones :)

[@zwz.zdenek]

I'm in a +2 timezone and I actually started watching it yesterday. He did upload it too early and the timezones don't justify the mistake. Don't even think this didn't occur to me. Not to mention that he targets American audience with like -5 to -7 hour shift, so he should have delayed the posting for them anyway.

[@Greeegification]

It's April fools somewhere! ;) (see eevblog2 episode about -12UTC to +14UTC timezone spread)

[@tskedition]

Because time zone i did not get it at first aswell

[@blackpoolbarmpot]

What a lucky person you are !!!! It is amazing what people will throw away. All I have ever found in a dumpster is a damaged music centre, and a broken radio/cassette player. I repaired both of them electrically, but the cabinets of both items were damaged beyond repair. so I just kept them, eventually after a few years, I cannibalised both of them for parts.

[@SpeakingMath]

Checked the date :)

[@SpeakingMath]

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[@ForViewingOnly]

APRIL FOOLS! Only real engineers would use a bit of kit like this, and real engineers don't dump anything this expensive without being 100% sure that it's knackered.

[@m1k869]

shush

[@dougspurell2387]

As I am sure you know, the legal requirement is "Make it inoperable." If Dave is not pulling a joke on us, I agree that no engineer would let it go so easy. Non-engineers (asset managers etc) could be the culprits. I also, like others here, believe it not to be random. All that aside, Dave, you are giving us great technical and entertainment content.

[@gblargg]

Oh damn it, totally fooled me. And I remember too last year when he did one, seemingly a day early because of Aussie time.

[@4516n41]

Yeah it would have to be in an explosion/fire or a truck ran over it five times.

[@matthiasBdot]

it was uploaded top early eben Forum aussie time

[@NivagSwerdna]

Awesome. I recently found a HP Spectrum Analyser in ours, just re-capped the power supply and she's a beauty. Not only that... got an email from KeySight today saying they wanted me to have a 4-channel scope on condition I showed it on my youtube channel... despite only having 116 subscribers!

[@EEVblog]

116 subs and you got a scope offer?

[@NivagSwerdna]

Must be our lucky day!

[@ender_scythe2879]

If Keysight is sending you a scope at 116 subscribers you're in for a real treat soon enough.

[@JaymzBond]

EEVblog somebody is jealous? 😉

[@spankeyfish]

April Fool's?

[@klafong1]

This is a fabulous April Fool's day video. I fell for it until I started reading the comments. What I wonder is, who lent him an infiniium to take apart for the making of the video?

[@stienogamez8296]

This was not made on april fools tho

[@frother]

@@stienogamez8296 time zones

[@joshcook8586]

@@frother he is in aus mate it was 31st of march when it was uploaded

[@camtheham13]

This is April fools but didn't Agilent send him a 9000 series for loan a few years ago, could be that he was allowed to keep it and this is it

[@sbains560]

I found a engine in the dumpster at work Sold it for $100 Gave my buddy $20 for fishing it out for me Everyone was happy 😃

[@jdwilliams518]

Years ago I found a nice 2 channel scope in a dumpster.. not as fancy as that one.. so I can believe it... Wish I still had it.. bummer I sold it...

[@TheVexCortex]

You could try to find the company that trashed it in the first place, they should be in the market for a scope like that right about now ;)

[@Landrew0]

Except that by now, someone has certainly shown this video to whomever was responsible, and their boss. So, I doubt anyone wants to admit to making such stupid choices.

[@InfernosReaper]

Unless they were just throwing it out to get new equipment. That sort of thing happens

[@yougeo]

Clearly company you have worked for the government or a big company . Quick break that so we can get a new one!

[@ThisDoesNotCompute]

Dave, do you have any other scopes that have video output? I know this scope is way overkill for you, but you should be able to set up video mirroring through one of the ports on the back and feed it into a capture card -- might make video production easier or offer better quality/flexibility.

[@EEVblog]

Yes I can do that, but it's not easier. 10% extra in production value like that adds 10 times the hassle.

[@Ghozer]

Even if it is an april fools joke.... I have had all-sorts found dumped.... found a couple of Cisco 1841 routers 10 years ago or so, fully working - and various Servers etc... it's amazing what people throw out!!

[@centori2011]

What are you doing rummaging around the trash, were you one of the homeless? Don't you have better thing to do than pick through the trash???

[@KingJellyfishII]

@@centori2011 I hope you're being sarcastic because no, it's just if you see a server or something valuable in a bin then you might want to pick it up?

[@gamingSlasher]

The guys in the tech firm just dumped it to see if Dave would blow his mind.

[@veraxis9961]

Maybe the real April fool's joke was being played on Dave and this video is genuine... >:-)

[@3Dgifts]

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure! Although an old video, you have to love the story. Love your channel too.

[@vincei4252]

Dave, does it pass the ceramic capacitor micro-phonics test? Whack it with a hammer !

[@EEVblog]

50ohm input only, almost certainly not a problem.

[@vincei4252]

Darn :( :-)

[@Stylemaster911]

Awesome april fools... but I think the real joke is they used a bloody Cooler Master fan on a $300k oscilloscope! Could at least use Noctua for that price...

[@leocomerford]

I'm pretty sure the reason the owners threw it out was because the fan isn't RGB.

[@CofeeAuLait]

Noctua? PPPPFT. Gentle Typhoons are the real contenders here.

[@dbmaster46446]

on a intel core2duo ? did noctua exzist these days ?

[@edherdman9973]

@@dbmaster46446 yep

[@jakebradminster709]

That would have put them over the $299,999.99 retail price.

[@RoboTekno]

I didn't know half the things you said, but I was excited watching you be excited about this find :-P

[@DanielTekmyster]

clone the hard drive if you cannot get the software and licensing free...

[@EasyMac308]

My very first thought...

[@FlameRat_YehLon]

I think the software might require some sort of burn-in license chip to work. But it's a good idea to clone the hard drive anyway, otherwise this thing would become useless when the hard drive dies.

[@Patchuchan]

I figure it would be tied to a code in one of the roms on the oscilloscope cards. Really not much need for any high security copy protection as it probably wouldn't work right without the exact same hardware. Most of the $$$$ in these is the hardware as the amps and high speed ADCs needed are not cheap.

[@DanielTekmyster]

Patchuchan i agree, but wouldn't chance it in the event is not.

[@FlameRat_YehLon]

Patchuchan Actually, comparing to the cost making the software, the hardware almost costs like nothing at all. I'd say most of the cost making the hardware goes calibrating the thing. If it's not for the software, you might as well just buy a USB oscilloscope kit and hook it up to a PC and call it a day. True, you can't find such high-end one as a USB kit, and you still have to pay a hell lot to calibrate it if it's such high-end, but the point is, you'll still spend more money on the software, assuming that you are not pirating it.

[@TheRealHughJeffner]

This will be perfect to go in your 4000 m2 lab you moved into!

[@ekummel]

Some of the dumpsters where I live used to have some super nice stuff for dumpster diving...but the companies started locking their dumpsters up at night. I got some really nice stuff...hardware and software! I once got a full PageMaker that came bundled with Windows 1.0!

[@dr_frost_dk]

Put a SSD in it and mirror the disk, would help A LOT on the "slowness"

[@alessandrosaporetti9778]

best 1st april joke in my life !!!

[@emremutlu44]

8:54 *banana for scaling a 32 GHz scope* ??? Did not know that bananas were so precise !!! Wooow absolute mindblower !!! I will go and tell it everywhere.

[@baroque_engineer]

Oh man, that was cruel. :) When I was initially watching this, it was still 31-st of March in my timezone...

[@MyPlayHouse]

It's not worth your time Dave,,, they throw it back. Have a nice day!!

[@MRooodddvvv]

oh! hi ! you here too ;)

[@themrenerd7384]

Hey i just watched you april fools video :D

[@alistairstuart2009]

You like EEVblog too, thats so cool!

[@mihaiachim5299]

Shahriar must be face palming himself at this hour 😅😂😊

[@RocRizzo]

I found plans to an old EICO scope in their dumpster back in the 1960s. Tube technology, with terminal strips. No printed circuits!

[@audiodood]

I have an EICO 460 but it doesnt work

[@audiodood]

is that what it is

[@Barnacules]

I just looked on eBay at all the oscilloscopes for sale and it looks like the 10ghz models are going for $3-6k USD used. I can't find one for sale on there over 16ghz period. I'm guessing this unit is probably still work $20-$40k USD. I would throw it up on eBay with a $40k reserve and see if you get any bites and make a video of you holding all the cash when you get it :D

[@KF7JO]

32 GHz 4-channel, fully loaded. $40k would be a steal.

[@julleverne]

😂 had fun... looking your joy

[@ZReviews]

I lol'd at Joshua

[@piggypiggypig1746]

Could have gone with Pencil

[@sokolum]

Probably was missing a Retina display... also would have dumped it.

[@sokolum]

Keep it? Sell it?

[@malcolmholmes115]

When I was young, the dumpster was a primary sponsor of my electronics hobby

[@danielson9579]

Ud think that if someone had the knowledge to use this scope that they would have the knowledge to repair it.

[@TeraVoltLabs]

Holy Shit! you mustve damn near shit yourself when you saw that thing. Unbelievable.

[@EEVblog]

There is a brown stain on the floor.

[@borisj4054]

Great find, but wait until you go to Aquire the input probes to suit. I bought a Tektronix 7404 based on specs without knowing everything about it except it was a 4 GHz machine. The cost of getting the SMA or BNC input adaptors were hundreds of dollars and the probes cost thousands!

[@ashliehiggins]

for 6 figures they could have fitted an SSD.

[@peppybocan]

in those days SSD maybe was not a thing...In 2007-2008 SSDs had a very low capacity...

[@AMalas]

Peter Bočan it has ddr4.... wasnt even finalised till like 2012

[@peppybocan]

Oh, does it?

[@AMalas]

Peter Bočan yep, see the part were dave mentions the ddr4 test option which alone cost 4.5k towards the end

[@JoranGroothengel]

Anas Malas But werd ssd's enterprise-level reliably yet in 2012? (Honestly don't know, always bad at hardware history)

[@erickmoraes9205]

Is that an April 1st thing? Posted in advance? oO

[@chartle1]

He lives where its tomorrow already.

[@erickmoraes9205]

According to youtube here, it was posted on march 31st, but I think that's ok...

[@chartle1]

Erick Moraes it was posted on the 31st where you live but maybe not where he lives.

[@chartle1]

LoL Good One. April Fools it really is. :)

[@joeyhinds6216]

April Isosceles!! Such sharply-angled short-based jokes simply will not do fine sir

[@skipperbentdk]

Found it in the dumpster and guessed the password, yeah right kangaroo man 😂

[@mrandmrsliamrussell]

send it to the hydraulic press channel

[@fatelvis3311]

Put it in front of some kids for a Millennials React to $300,000 Oscilloscope video.

[@martinda7446]

Hahahaha...I mean, wtf is it with that red hot knife? What do people expect?

[@AltimaNEO]

Send it to AvE first. Gotta check for chooch factor

[@mrandmrsliamrussell]

aye she's a real skookum choocher wa?

[@johnsmythe9449]

Do NOT send it to AvE, are u kidding me?

[@kjamison5951]

Password: "Joshua" LOL!

[@the_eminent_Joshua_E_Hrouda]

MatchstalkMan I loved that one. I also know the original reference

[@zahialsalman]

"Why's this oscilloscope so special?" "Well, you know, we have it dual booting windows and Linux, it comes with 32 gb of ram and has 2 gtx 1080s running in sli..."

[@larry785]

You missed the other five units thrown out the next day...

[@gmans2941]

I offered 5 bucks but only if the mouse comes with it . I need a new mouse

[@dtriplett03]

gman S LMAO!!)

[@deepmystic5850]

Haha funny enough, I actually found a Fluke Multimeter hidden away in work space I had rented a few years back. Not quite a find like this but definitely a winner at the time The meter actually had the owners name on the label and a contact number Anyway, after a bit of hunting around I manage to find the guy on Facebook and found out he left the country for good and told me to keep it as he had no more use for it :) The crazy thing is, that week I was looking on flea Bay at cheap replacement DMM then stumble on this.

[@machine2747]

I loved the War Games reference. Great video!

[@MichaelFoleyPhotography]

Are you going to install it in your space at the old Altium offices?

[@johnwest7993]

Amazing find! Good on ya mate! I think is the appropriate Aussie expression. It seems bizarre, but I know these things happen here in corporate America, too. I got a call from a tech buddy a couple of years ago who told me he saw an Agilent spectrum analyzer in a dumpster in an alley in an industrial park as he was cruising through, but it was too awkward for him to take home on his bicycle, so he called me and told me it was all mine if I wanted it. So I pulled an Agilent Spectrum analyzer out of the dumpster, fixed it back up for a couple hundred bucks and sold it on eBay for $17K. Since I was "between opportunities" it paid the rent for several months. I've done the same with smaller, cheaper equipment occasionally, but I continue to hear stories about 50GHz network analyzers and such getting tossed in the dumpster at government research facilities because they were 'defective' and 'not repairable', (which usually means an intermittent keypad or something,) and I just want to cry. Since I hear those stories from the warehouse people who tossed them out I tend to believe them. It's a crazy world we live in.

[@Sketch1994]

hi...I once found I school technology lab analog scope that didn't have any other functionality other than demonstrating that something happened and it changed something! I mean 32GHz! It is the dumpster find of the year!

[@sebastianb6439]

Hi

[@MajsoSVK]

Hi

[@PrinceWesterburg]

Some f*cking 'Engineers' threw this out with a fault I could have found when I was 6!!! Nice one Dave - made my weekend! :D

[@dgurevich1]

Equipment like this was used in the lab at my previous job developing SSDs at SanDisk. It's probably still there measuring things on latest flash drives.

[@Quadromodo]

Man after my own heart! What a find. Keep on ratting in the bins bro!

[@mikeissweet]

This is the most epic April fools joke ever

[@hugehappygrin]

Here in the States, in Las Vegas, NV especially, the trash collectors consider trash to be their private property. I too enjoy taking electronics apart, it's just my thing.

[@JeffEdlund]

Hi, Dave. We are from "LAB-GRX-PPA-8" here. Ummm.... this is hard to ask... but ummm, we would like our "working" scope back please. Thank you. ;-)

[@discussion8457]

I was mad envious watching this, not going to lie....

[@aneeshprasobhan]

Me too, till I saw the video publish date . :P

[@binaryglitch64]

Aneesh Prasobhan, the fact that it's a joke doesn't take away from the fact that he has it and I don't... the date changes nothing for me. I'm so efing sick of being so pore that at least once a month I have to literally take proof-of-purchases off of pizza boxes from dumpsters so that I can scam a free pizza because I wouldn't get to eat otherwise, mean while I am doing everything I can to get the basic equipment required to teach myself technology. I built my computer for free from dumpster diving... my soldering iron is homemade, my multimeter was a gift a friend bought me from a yard sale, my salvaged components are cut free from their silicone via a hack saw because my iron isn't good enough to desolder... my first soldering iron was a butter knife and a hot plate... I still use it sometimes... okay my equipment envy is no joke. It literally hurts to watch people on KZbin do EE because I actually cry some nights thinking why can't I just be happy being pore and just do whatever the f**k other pore people do rather than feeling compelled to pursue teach, why do I want to be a programmer, hardware and software hacker, and an electrical engineer... I want to be all of those things, I want to be the best at them the world has ever seen, I want it so bad I can taste it... yet I can't afford to get through tomorrow alive without doing something that violates my ethics... much less get the equipment for independent study nor can I attend proper schooling... ever try to maintain a schedule at my level of poverty... how about maintaining focus consistently while malnourished... how about grants paying tuition but not books and supplies, trust me, I've tried, I've tried hard enough, so don't even go there, I've pushed for this for over 20 years (I'm not outta my 30's) ... I am not done, I will never give up, so I will triumph or die trying.. but my can do attitude can't be maintained 27/7/365... so I do get down, I do cry, I do feel like giving up at times, I do get petty, I do get jealous, and it does suck.. so no, the fact that this is just an April fools joke doesn't quite fix that for me... he still has more equipment than he could possibly find an excuse to use, lots of it is free shit that people send to him, yet I'd cry tears of joy to have just a cheap (but professionally manufactured) pencil soldering iron... much less a top of the line soldering station... some components that have never been used and have a better than not chance at working... with full length pins... yeah that's the stuff of my dreams, that's for people who can afford to maintain a bank account and have $5 to spare for a phat sack of components form eBay... the slow boat from China... people complain about waiting for that, I want to smack them, I wish I had the privilege of waiting... oh that's library security, gotta go.

[@ITSFISHIMITSUBISHI]

My mate dived in the dumpster. Gave me the Bosch portable drill he found. Appeared to be working. I removed the old dead Ni-Cad battery and wired it to an AC-DC power supply that could supply up to 350W using 12V DC. I tested the drill under full load using an 8 cell laptop battery and with paired it with the correct thickness gauge of copper wire for the amp load. I checked with with a DC wire thickness calculator. So basically I had a cheap drill that ran off AC (using my AC to DC lab bench power supply). Used it to drill a couple of holes then put it down and took a break in the next room. Smelled burning plasitic smell and returned to find the cable all gooey & melted into the carpet! Quickly turned off the power and with oven gloves moved it to the bathroom. The cable insulation was so melted it was not far away from the copper wire of the positive contacting the negative and probably a fire. So the dumpster dive and all my work ended up in only half the job done and a nasty carpet burn that will probably put me in debt quite a bit to replace all the carpet. So after analysis of the scenario I believe the fault was most likely the drill causing a short since the trigger was not on at the time and I did do the calculations correctly for the thickness gauge of copper wire (even when the drill trigger was on and under load). Never the less I am not a trained electrical engineer and so this is is a sketchy and costly amatueur leaning experiment! Take heed folks dumpster diving and amatuer electrical engineering projects can be costly and potentially de-stabalise your living arrangement (if you don't own your own place)!!

[@15fakeaccount]

I wanted to steal that Vista license :(

[@EEVblog]

No soup for you.

[@TerryMcKean]

...for one year! :-)

[@GaRbAllZ]

They put Vista on a 300K scope? Fire who ever did it!

[@tin2001]

Bezalel Geretz You don't play with Windows activation much... That boot animation was 7, so the Vista key would have been inactive for plenty long enough for MS to happily reactive on new hardware... Ignoring the fact support ends in a few days, of course.

[@flaxious]

vista? It clearly must be windows 7 when it says windows 7 in the boot menu

[@ItsBBP]

Would you upgrade the internals of the standard computer parts? e.g. CPU and HDD, making it a bit speedier to load / process data

[@ffmfg]

Considering it talks to scope part via SATA it would be super easy to screw up compatibility. Even with standard PCI/PCIe expansion cards that aren't just some generic i/o port card, compatibility lists are a thing for a reason. Plus software might require reactivation, etc. Actually I wonder what Agilent's reaction would be if someone would contact support with a software problem on a scope that was found in a dumpster :)

[@56b9]

The only thing better than the fact that he found this in the dumpster is the fact that it had such a guessable password.

[@videotape2959]

nice profile picture

[@56b9]

VideoTape Thank you!

[@fredflintstone8048]

could be that someone who works at the company pulled that cable loose and put it in the dumpster hoping to come along later and get it. You got there ahead of them.

[@mikeymike4g63]

Could it be he did it so he could throw it away and pick it up himself?

[@tickertape1]

This is an April fool joke

[@dyershov]

Another youtube giveaway! Yay! I could use it to debug my arduino circuits ;)

[@jaye1967]

One thing to consider is maybe it was bought without any sort of a warranty program and would have cost a lot to get someone to pop it open.

[@Rusiputki]

Plot Twist: He threw it in the dumpster before filming

[@Stoney3K]

But the most important question remains: Can it run Crysis?

[@oniruddhoalam2039]

Actually yeah, it should, it is a windows computer.

[@samueljames9342]

I found a Dranits ( not sure of the spelling as it was 20 years ago) power quality monitor with data logging, headed for the dumpster. With permission I took it home. It had all the cables,manuals and software. A quick test showed it appeared to work just fine. I sold it on Ebay for close to $5000. Now that was a score.

[@gregorybentley5192]

"Joshua" Love the WarGames reference lol

[@aisystemsnetau]

I had a little chuckle when Dave mentioned Joshua

[@MrCapacitator]

But is it microphonic?

[@BobPegram]

With right or the wrong connectors on? Good "point". I can see it now; someone walks into the room ruining a running hi-freq measurement. Ha Ha Haaa. Fixing that stuff is why Agilent got the big bucks for it.

[@crazyoldprogrammer3235]

WOW! That's a great oscilloscope find! Much better than the old Textronix scope I found in a dumpster. It was the 1980's and I was in college. All it needed was some contact cleaner and I had a perfectly good scope.

[@ottoreuter6279]

Really torn if this is an April Fools joke or not... Seems like Dave's sense of humour, and the power connector fix seems a bit too easy. But the biggest doubt that this is real comes from the Windows desktop which displays numerous files. Seeing that this is a serious piece of research equipment, there would most certainly be proprietary information stored on there, if not intellectual property. And Dave seems far too conscientious and professional to just blindly put that kind of work up for sale on eBay, rather than at least attempting to return it.

[@daftbence]

It's more than likely to be a joke, so don't worry :)

[@RosePhoto1]

Somebody unplugged that cable so they could say it was broken and get a new modern one.....just saying.

[@Bluebrain]

This is incredible! What a great find! I hope you find a buyer for this thing.

[@chickenman297]

Use it as your normal scope. Not many techies or engineers can say they kick around with a $300k scope.

[@gregnulik1975]

Ever think about trading it for a House on Aussie Craigslist? Wow, $300k. Unbelieveable.

[@CollectiveSoftware]

But how are the microphonics???

[@toysareforboys1]

Holy sugar, 10Gbase and SFP+ YES PLEASE! :)

[@EEVblog]

Mine! Mine! Mine!

[@toysareforboys1]

I'm going to block all your dumpster find videos, they make me so depressed (at the quality of your dumpsters) :(

[@miroslavgallik6933]

I don't believe that this is true. I have 30 years old analog scope and you find this in dumpster. DISLIKE to this video. My first dislike ever.

[@blueblazeing94]

SFP+ is getting stupid cheap for servers, switches how ever a still crazy. When with switch with two xfp ports to get my server 10Gb to the network.

[@toysareforboys1]

You could get the UniFi 16 port switch (12 10gig SFP+ ports and 4 RJ45 10gig ports) for $299 when it first came out. Sold out instantly and now the price is quite a bit more :( lol. I love to use these single mode adapters with it, MULTI MODE IS FOR WIMPS! www.fs.com/products/65337.html

[@snuffsan]

I know nothing about oscilloscopes but holy shit that seems impressive

[@latengocomoburro]

0:32 "I am aweeeeeeeeeeh"

[@PeterKwanvt80]

These can be used a lot for developing and calibrating wideband receivers for SIGINT. They usually come with an exquisite box of calibration accessories including a torque drive for attaching the connectors.

[@arberthree]

Seagate hard disk? clone before it crash!

[@aaronbrandenburg2441]

I have had three Seagate hard drives die catastrophic failure no possibility of recovering data. do not recommend to anyone and if a device has one clone it. Then replace it then destroy it. Yank it apart for anything you can use. Um nice refrigerator magnets. Or hard drive speaker. Obviously I'm a maker. it end of story. don't trust them farther than I can push it with a flick of a finger. And you can also give those things tge middle finger. they are crap drives. Unreliable they can be. they will fail. it's not a question if it will fail. it's a question of how long an. When. usually right before you back it up. is when it feels like it did for me all three times. three strikes you're out Seagate! I have heard horror stories about Seagate drives. cannot be trusted not heaven for your recycle bin Drive. Which they belong in the E-Waste Bin not in any type of functional device. I wish manufacturers would boycott their drives. Or better yet not buy them. And retailers and even wholesalers and everyone and get those drives off the market. It would be the best for evrey one involved.

[@resneptacle]

@@aaronbrandenburg2441 And I on the other hand never had any of mine fail for years now

[@charles8060]

@@resneptacle I have had 20 Seagate hard drives, I had one with a bearing fail. It was used when I got it. Western digital is different story. 8 out of 10 failed, horrible!

[@Proxxal]

But will it blend?

[@mlproductions9601]

That is the question

[@Michael-1337]

Even if it is an april fools joke that is still one bad ass scope lol.