Oscilliscope - Good deal?

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Joe Boucher wrote:
> 
> I have a business card from a vendor who has a $25 dollar HP122AR
> Oscillicope.  It had a sweeptime range of 5 to 200 usec per cm.  That's
> good enough for fuel injection stuff, isn't?  The damn thing was huge and
> old.  Round, orange screen.  It did have A, B, and A&B channels.  Outside
> reference feeds.  What I liked about it was the lack of hundreds of
> incomprehensible buttons and dials whose function I have no idea of.
> 
> The vendor said he was using it up to two months ago and it fuctioned then.
>  Is it a good deal?  It would cost me $10 bucks in gas to go get it, but I
> could make them plug it in and proved it worked.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe Boucher
> '70 RS/SS Camaro  '81 TBI Suburban
I think you could do better (spend a bit more). You get accustomed
to numerous buttons in a hurry. He should give you the scope free.
I have seen better ones left behind at hamfests (I gave away my TEK535).
Check out the ads in Nuts&Volts magazine, then give the used test equip
vendors a ring to check prices. Tons of used scopes out there... Steve