Tek went into the toilet when Danaher bought them out. I bought a TDS1002 and could not even get the PC software to download screen images, even after "registering".
However, registration sure did get me onto their spam list. It took at least a hald-dozed tries to get their spam to stop. I have lusted after Tek since about 1962 and have over 100 of their instruments. The 7000 series and TM500 seriea are masterpieces. But, never again. YMMV, -John ================= > I was a Tek aficionado for many many years. My first personal scope was a > tek, my first work scope was a Tek. I've owned at least half a dozen over > the decades. The three scopes I own today are Tek. But everything else on > my lab bench has changed over to HP (with the exception of a couple of > TM5006 mainframes full of specialty plugins). > > The quality, availability, and most important to me, the consistency of HP > gear has been impressive. I've yet to go into a lab where the majority of > basic RF equipment, counters, sig gens, spectrum analyzers, etc was not > HP. > Unless they were lucky enough to have R&S. > > The ability to get manuals, parts, and just plain guidance on the HP gear > has been great. > > Now if I can score an HP Primary or GPSDO standard, I'll be happy. > > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:26 PM, paul swed <paulsw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I believe in HPs case a unique situation occurred on the old gear. >> That is there were and are people at agilent willing to take the time to >> preserve their history. After all its still pretty fantastic stuff even >> at >> 20, 30, and yes I have a piece in the 40-50 years old era. Generally >> amazingly well built. I do know that when test and measurement was HP >> their >> support was top notch both for me professionally and personally. It did >> effect what I chose to buy for the business. But on the personal side >> they >> always helped I was above board about why I was calling. >> Ahhh for the good ole days. >> Regards >> Paul >> WB8TSL >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.