Tektronix competition 1983

[@Vincent_Sullivan]

Very interesting series! Unfortunately one VERY important factor was left out: Cost! It is clear that the Tek 2215A is a great scope. I have used many Tek scopes over the years in my professional career and I have been very pleased with them. They do cost a pile though so when it came time for me to purchase a personal scope I ended up with a Philips PM3214 which is essentially identical to the PM3217 except it has a bandwidth of 25 MHz. instead of 50 MHz. It seemed at the time to be a reasonable cost/performance trade off. I have been very happy with the PM3214 and it serves me well to this day. For what it is worth, I also used a few HP scopes during my career and I was never very happy with them. HP used to make some pretty good equipment, but their scopes didn't seem to be among them.

[@conwaynoel3715]

Gosh that film is 39 years old. I've a 2430 from circa 1990 and it's a dinger !

[@lambertax]

The price is what killed Tektronix. Nobody, except big companies could afford it.