Out of the 45 year collection of Dad’s (RIP) equipment collection of our recently closed family business was this,if nothing else,awesome looking Tektronics Ocilliscope COMPLETE with “HIGH TECH” Polaroid camera attachment,manuals,cords,few spare parts in drawer and super smooth running cart. I have ZERO business attempting to operate it so I am going to try and make a some bucks towards my car & get this in the hands of someone who would be as excited about this survivor as we would on a barn find GSX. Any ideas where to market it or value from anyone familiar with these before it ends up off my truck and absorbed into my twilight zone barn?
Yes! BUT imagine how impressive it would look in your shop and if ANYONE asked you “WTH is THAT?!” Just drop your shaking head and sigh at their ignorance & tell them there isn’t enough time to help them to even understand the BASICS
Haven’t ohmed those all yet Jason but the Hyperomegatron cyberresistorkabobs & atomic incappulation transistorbaiters Are EXCELLENT!
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I have spent many hours in front of one of those in the prototype lab at Delco. I think that those have been obsoleted by digital technology. They were mostly used in analyzing radio/audio/microwave frequency signals or trigger events and such.... Peace WildBill
Thanks for sharing Sir Wildbill(good to see ya back my Buick brother!). Yeh she is an oldie for sure and most are probably crushed and filled with beer long ago but I couldn’t just scrap what at one time was “The $hit” if you know what I mean : ) Was hoping to find her a good home to put out to pasture even if just a “then & now” technology history experience . “Polaroid WHAT?!!” Lol If forced I’ll give it a home here with the World War I radio,tubes,and Morse code units from previous owners fathers shop in the barn.He even had a Morse sending unit in the barn going to his wife in there “in-laws” house. Some cool stuff from even OLDER technology. He was rumored to not only be a local “ wing walker”but fighter plane radio man during WWI & friends with the wild child of the Springs Mills Textile Plants Founder before all our mills were run outta business the son was a“wing walker”with Cochran also, look Wong walkers up youngsters!) Cloth covered wood planes as sidewalks IN the air? Not me! Very blessed with cool stuff even if only I like it lol
I work for a natiponal teaching hospital and the stuff we toss in favor of the latest and greatest is mind boggling. I tried to get the boss to let me turn on a portable lazar scalpel (the size of a washing machine) but he wouldn't. Darn, darn, darn... We just scrapped a 3 Tesla MRI machine. Had to build support bracing under the floor to the floor below to be able to move it out of the building. The radiation guns for non-invasive cancer treatment are awesome machines. It is a shame we had to invent them but they are cool. The newer portable x-ray machines are half the size of a washing machine but extremely heavy. They are self propelled and you can use them anywhere at any angle. Mikey
John......i would un-mount the Polaroid so you can see the screen and then hook an input up to one of your shop radio speakers and have it on when listening Peace WildBill
Hey heyyyyyy that sounds pretty cool Bill,I knew someone would come up with a sweet repurpose for it! I also have a spare cart and an encased portable scope that definitely still works and would take up way less space. Between that,my 60’s lava lamp,also 1960’s oscillating “Party Lites”,1940’s red lensed “cure anything “ Dr.s quackery lamp ,my neon Buick and Budman clock the Man Cave is gonna be INTENSE LOL Probably time for a bigger breaker though heh heh Thank ya WildBill! Hope all is well with ya
Tek was HQ in Portland Oregon area for years. Probabaly a lot of retired types from Tek in PNW; maybe put a craigslist ad in and see who is interested. The Ocilliscope itself is probably pretty common but the camera system may be pretty rare. Main issue is shipping something like that over distance and having it arrive whole. Good luck; looks like intriguing toy to play with.
It is an antique in the technology world. It is probably only worth what a collector may value it at which may be $0 to whatever $s are burning a hole in his pocket. As far as marketability, belongs on a movie set probably something science fiction where Oscopes are commonly used and abused. You need to find a engineering community and target it for advertising. Honestly, I have a soft spot for them, but they take up so much room and are on par with antique radios, magnetic media, CRT TVs and the like.
