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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected]
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2020 10:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TekScopes] Advice about buying a 7904

Reg,

To add to Harvey's excellent response, yes indeed most (all?) 7k plugins will work in any 7k mainframe. HOWEVER, there are at least a couple plugins (I cannot recall which ones right now, perhaps someone else knows off the top of their head) that explicitly must never be used in a 7104 because the way they drive the crt can cause damage to it. You absolutely could simply use the plugins you have for your 7104 in a 7904(A).

Sean

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 05:53 PM, Reginald Beardsley wrote:

Please forgive me my ignorance, but for most of my life these things
were pure unobtainium for budgetary reasons. And as I was not an EE
and not allowed to touch the ones at work, there was no incentive to
torture myself by looking at catalogs of things I could not afford. Getting a 465 was a huge event for me.
And I don't mean all the work it took to repair it. I am acutely aware
of how fiddly adjusting the vertical amplifiers is. But when you get it right, wow!
Though in all honesty, I like my Dumont 1062 better as it does not have a fan.
It's only 60 MHz, but otherwise matches the 465 in features.

Can I use my 7104 plugins in a 7904 mainframe, albeit with reduced BW
and sweep speeds? That would greatly ease my concerns about using the
7104 on a regular basis. And make getting a 7904 mainframe pretty much a no-brainer.
Just a question of getting a good deal.

Is there a matrix which shows which plugins will work in which
mainframes? I'm really only interested in the vertical and horizontal
plugins. For the other stuff I have HP gear. I'm not aware of anything
Tek made that can compete with an 8566B or 8510C.

Thanks,
Reg

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