HP 54610B Oscilloscope 2ch 500MHz digital 1994 test teardown

[@bfx8185]

those one are iconic scopes even for today standards

[@RensePosthumus]

I'll have the 54616B. Indeed a top oscilloscope. Part of the manual is a very nice & lucid manual on how FFT's works.

[@absurdengineering]

Back when those were introduced, I think I was lusting for one for a while. My girlfriend had a lot of fun with me having “hp pamphlets under the bed”. I had The Catalog and one or two brochures advertising those. I then got to use them in a student electronics lab. I often have to stop myself from considering buying one even now :)

[@ralfstocker7742]

Student electronics lab and girlfriend excluded each other very often at that time.

[@absurdengineering]

@ 😅I was spoiled - I grew up with a decent lab at home. Still, DSOs had an allure that was hard to beat. I appreciate that growing up with a CRO taught me lots of tricks to make once-in-a-while events become repetitive to see them clearly.

[@idleprepress]

Holu crap, what a condition of the device!

[@danielepatane3841]

I have the same scope, what concerns me are the tantalum capacitors nested in the main board......congrat for the video

[@senilyDeluxe]

I had a very similar, slightly newer one which had an almost arcade-perfect (at least gameplay wise) version of Centipede (which also has a highscore list - mine had some very low scoring entries tho, I got over 50k). I've also heard of Asteroids. Those programmers really had too much time. If you hit the 2nd and 4th buttons in that menu (or was it 3rd and 4th?) there is another easter egg that shows a photo of what looks like a skunk and the names of the programmers (and you can still use the scope while it's rendering, it just doesn't react to button presses). IIRC mine was from 1997. I passed it on to a friend.