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hmm.. maybe just give it back to the original owner.. would be a really good karma thing to do.
He doesn't believe in religion I think :D
im a atheist too.. but giving stuff back is moraly the right thing to do. dont you think?
After the whoever owned it before was ready to mash it instead of giving it away? This is April fools video btw.
Yeah that would be my reaction as well :)
There is a bussiness card and most likely it would be easy to track the owner to at least ask why it was dumped.
But I will go with the aprils fool explanation :)
I forgot they are sometime ahead of me :)
It was in the dumpster so he saved the poor scope from beeing shredded into little 32gig pieces :)
In terms of morality it all depends on what model you choose and stuff. If the scope owner was throwing it out and dave really likes it how would it be moral if he gives it back? He would be really sad and the owner doesn't give a shit. If he kept it he would be happy and the owner still doesn't give a shit so option two would be overall better in that situation. If one follows the Bible or I. Kant steeling would be bad so giving it back is the right choice!
Dave went and bought a $300k scope but said he "found" it so his wife doesnt kill him. What a hero.
Don't be so cynical. I found a sports motorcycle in the dumpster last week.
lol, wives are the same everywhere
If your wife does not like your oscilloscope, change your wife.
wife need calibration ;)
Yup, gotta use that calibration port on the front panel every once in a while :D
I started to consider moving to Australia. I will find a ranch, a house and wife in a dumpster.
Can buy all 3 with that scope
Nah. Spouse in a dumpster may have all sorts of short circuits, software faults and hardware flaws. It's criminal you don't have to have mandatory Spouse insurance and a current service contract for them.
Haha your comment made my day! xD
You can have my wife!
Brand new!
@@baasbassinnababylonrobert-9963 She's not legally your wife until you remove her from the packaging.
Someone is looking at the empty bin and thinking: Where the f*ck is my scope which I prepared to take home at the evening?!
hahahaha happens to me all the time, the other day I left a microwave in the dumpster and wanted to take it home to realise that my neighbour took it home
I have to admit, this is one of the few internet April fools gags that genuinely had me fooled, for at least a few hours, until I realized that it was April 1. Nicely done, Dave.
only 16Ghz on 4 channel? throw this shit away dave
I know, right. Useless.
that's why it ended up in the trash
lol - might be OK-ish for checking output Voltage of a battery! ;-)
But seriously - isn't that frequency range the domain where it more and more comes to spectrum analysers? Are there really that much applications for a scope at such high frequencies? Just wondering...(?)
Yes, I know in digital domain you would need multiples of the given frequency to check for signal integrity issues, as you have to respect all the harmonics up to at least 5 times the frequency you're providing your digital circuit, but is that really done this way?
According to Fourier rectangular voltage output can be splitted into a sum of multiple signals being 1*V1+1/3*V3+1/5*V5+1/7*V7+....... with V3, V5, V7 and so on being some output of sine wave with a voltage of a 3rd, 5th, 7th or whatsoever of the base frequency output voltage. The higher the frequencies you do add to this sum, the closer you get to the rectangular voltage response. But is that in practice a way that is really used?
I dug in dumpster but all I found was hepatitis
I found a PS2 slim once
I only found a xbox 360 slim without hard drive but with 6 crappy games, a Porsche 911 posters, a lots of game cases without discs, fake galaxy s2, diving suit, a lot of paper and already activated Need for speed most wanted key : P
Maybe because I visiting my uncle in the America only at summer...
I found a PS2 silver. Still got it. Don't know what to do with the bloody thing. I also found a nice 15" LCD TV with DVD player on the side, HDMI, Freeview and all the connections. It didn't work but I chased the fault to the power diodes and now it works fine. :)
open ps2 loader + smb = win
I'll trade you for this AIDS needle sticking out of my foot!
That moment when you realize this was an April Fools joke :D
haha we need more windows 10 vids pls!!
Hey didn't expect you here
A day early??????? "Published on 31 Mar 2017"
mbaker335 it's because of Australia timezones, for Dave it was April the 1st
no Jerry he is ridgy dige he is for real over the top personality hahhaha
Looking at the date I would think that this was an early April fools joke.
Why don't we have such Dumpsters in the Netherlands !
Only thing I find in the dumpsters is trash :p
I'm Curious Please try tapping it, for the microphonic test
Forgot about that!
Because the Dutch are too cheap to throw anything that's still working away.
You just need to find them. At my german university there's some construction going on, some institutes are moving around and throw old stuff away that isn't worth keeping. There were some really cool things in the electronics container until now, especially some retro gear from the GDR.
Well... I used to go from dumpster to dumpster... because they would throw all sorts of stuff away... Even here in Holland... yes sir...
Found a lot next to the road... Unfortunately they do not have these "trash-days" anymore in the city... I would drive around that evening.... had my own route...
Mostly that were fridges and washing-machines and dryers... and some smaller stuff .. like Vinyl records... and pots and pans..
I used to have a kind of a lorry car... with a big capacity...
So... it still works .. :-)
I live in the US and a tactic I use is checking electronic and office store dumpster. I have never found anything like Dave here but I do pretty comfortably. My homes security system and cameras came from an office depot dumpster.
"Hey Ed, our $300k scope doesn't turn on anymore."
"Throw it in the dumpster, I'll sell you a new one."
No flies on Ed
"Hey look, I found me a new house in the dumpster"
If that's Australian dollars, that wouldn't buy much of a house in the UK now.
@@SnabbKassa it could buy three in Malaysia.
I'm super envious of your amazing find! If it were me I'd just put it on the bench and pet it and talk to it once in a while. :-)
so, this is what happened: someone from the company owning the scope manipulated the power plug and hoped to make a few bucks from selling it. Unfortunately for the poor guy, Dave spotted it before he finished his shift and recovered it.
Put doom on it!
Underrated
It has an onboard GPU, I doubt it will even run Doom 3.
If you're not trying to be funny, your username fits a few days early, too lol
If it can run Win7 it can run Tiberium Sun if you really wanted. So it can definately run Doom.
Age of Empires II
Oh no Dave, you ruined an employee's plan to embezzle this machine! ;D
Same thing I thought!
Yeah, I've seen pallets of test gear at military surplus auctions only to find out the fuses had been changed to half amp fuses. Most of them needed two amps. I doubt more than one or two were bad considering the gavel price.
Watch the film. Employee Of The Month, where they are damaging stock so they get to bring them home for free.
My first thought
Hahahahaha, yeah missing seals and a loose connector.. their best tech 'goes through it and it's fried' comes to get it later
Granted people have done stupider things like throwing out a high quality piece of equipment without checking the fuse, people also have the car towed to the dealer because the battery is dead or is out of gas so... 🤷♂️ 😂😂
Dave man seriously you get me every time! good one! You have just gave me that little false hope i needed to continue dreaming that a find like this could actually happen... Keep up the good work mate!
APRIL FOOLS! Only real engineers would use a bit of kit like this, and real engineers don't dump anything this expensive without being 100% sure that it's knackered.
shush
As I am sure you know, the legal requirement is "Make it inoperable."
If Dave is not pulling a joke on us, I agree that no engineer would let it go so easy. Non-engineers (asset managers etc) could be the culprits. I also, like others here, believe it not to be random.
All that aside, Dave, you are giving us great technical and entertainment content.
Oh damn it, totally fooled me. And I remember too last year when he did one, seemingly a day early because of Aussie time.
Yeah it would have to be in an explosion/fire or a truck ran over it five times.
it was uploaded top early eben Forum aussie time
Awesome april fools... but I think the real joke is they used a bloody Cooler Master fan on a $300k oscilloscope! Could at least use Noctua for that price...
I'm pretty sure the reason the owners threw it out was because the fan isn't RGB.
Noctua? PPPPFT. Gentle Typhoons are the real contenders here.
on a intel core2duo ? did noctua exzist these days ?
@@dbmaster46446 yep
That would have put them over the $299,999.99 retail price.
You know... some of you are claiming this is an April Fool's joke and the posting date would support such a suspicion, but I can't find anywhere it is stated... so perhaps can EEVBlog weigh in or can you point me to where that already happened (yeah I'm a year late to the party, bugger off)? I could believe either scenario. I've found some ludicrously valuable things in ditches, dumpsters, and random parking lots... so.. why not? That said, this is a tad bit of a stretch so I'm wary of believing especially given the date. A year later it cant be ruining the joke to clue a guy in, right? :)
This video is really about how to explain to your wife where you got a $300k scope.
It fell from the back of a truck, darling.
Regardless of it's a April Fools joke or not it's a pretty awesome device.
I didn't know half the things you said, but I was excited watching you be excited about this find :-P
This is a fabulous April Fool's day video. I fell for it until I started reading the comments. What I wonder is, who lent him an infiniium to take apart for the making of the video?
This was not made on april fools tho
@@stienogamez8296 time zones
@@frother he is in aus mate it was 31st of march when it was uploaded
Good April's fool joke, Dave! :)
This came out in March 31st. If it's a joke, it's poorly executed.
It came out on March 31st for you. Dave is in Australia. The day starts a little bit earlier there. The wonders of time zones :)
I'm in a +2 timezone and I actually started watching it yesterday. He did upload it too early and the timezones don't justify the mistake. Don't even think this didn't occur to me.
Not to mention that he targets American audience with like -5 to -7 hour shift, so he should have delayed the posting for them anyway.
It's April fools somewhere! ;) (see eevblog2 episode about -12UTC to +14UTC timezone spread)
Because time zone i did not get it at first aswell
This is April fools but didn't Agilent send him a 9000 series for loan a few years ago, could be that he was allowed to keep it and this is it
I found a engine in the dumpster at work
Sold it for $100
Gave my buddy $20 for fishing it out for me
Everyone was happy 😃
"Why's this oscilloscope so special?"
"Well, you know, we have it dual booting windows and Linux, it comes with 32 gb of ram and has 2 gtx 1080s running in sli..."
Dave, do you have any other scopes that have video output? I know this scope is way overkill for you, but you should be able to set up video mirroring through one of the ports on the back and feed it into a capture card -- might make video production easier or offer better quality/flexibility.
Yes I can do that, but it's not easier. 10% extra in production value like that adds 10 times the hassle.
I smell bullshit. Who the fuck dumps such an insanely expensive device in the dumpster?
Sawwweeeeeet. My best dumpster dive ever: behind a Zilog manufacturing building that had shut down the previous week. What did I get? Endless now antique test equipment, parts, and tools. I recall tears of joy. What did I do with that stuff? Tried to fend off my wife as she progressively threw it all away over the next twenty years.
I just looked on eBay at all the oscilloscopes for sale and it looks like the 10ghz models are going for $3-6k USD used. I can't find one for sale on there over 16ghz period. I'm guessing this unit is probably still work $20-$40k USD. I would throw it up on eBay with a $40k reserve and see if you get any bites and make a video of you holding all the cash when you get it :D
32 GHz 4-channel, fully loaded. $40k would be a steal.
That squeaky noise you've been listening to for 14 minutes is Dave's mind exploding
Dave, does it pass the ceramic capacitor micro-phonics test? Whack it with a hammer !
50ohm input only, almost certainly not a problem.
Darn :( :-)
best 1st april joke in my life !!!
What a lucky person you are !!!! It is amazing what people will throw away.
All I have ever found in a dumpster is a damaged music centre, and a broken radio/cassette player. I repaired both of them electrically, but the cabinets of both items were damaged beyond repair. so I just kept them, eventually after a few years, I cannibalised both of them for parts.
Checked the date :)
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Awesome. I recently found a HP Spectrum Analyser in ours, just re-capped the power supply and she's a beauty. Not only that... got an email from KeySight today saying they wanted me to have a 4-channel scope on condition I showed it on my youtube channel... despite only having 116 subscribers!
116 subs and you got a scope offer?
Must be our lucky day!
If Keysight is sending you a scope at 116 subscribers you're in for a real treat soon enough.
EEVblog somebody is jealous? 😉
April Fool's?
You could try to find the company that trashed it in the first place, they should be in the market for a scope like that right about now ;)
Except that by now, someone has certainly shown this video to whomever was responsible, and their boss. So, I doubt anyone wants to admit to making such stupid choices.
Unless they were just throwing it out to get new equipment. That sort of thing happens
Clearly company you have worked for the government or a big company . Quick break that so we can get a new one!
Found it in the dumpster and guessed the password, yeah right kangaroo man 😂
Ud think that if someone had the knowledge to use this scope that they would have the knowledge to repair it.
Even if it is an april fools joke.... I have had all-sorts found dumped.... found a couple of Cisco 1841 routers 10 years ago or so, fully working - and various Servers etc...
it's amazing what people throw out!!
What are you doing rummaging around the trash, were you one of the homeless? Don't you have better thing to do than pick through the trash???
@@centori2011 I hope you're being sarcastic because no, it's just if you see a server or something valuable in a bin then you might want to pick it up?
The guys in the tech firm just dumped it to see if Dave would blow his mind.
Maybe the real April fool's joke was being played on Dave and this video is genuine... >:-)
Some of the dumpsters where I live used to have some super nice stuff for dumpster diving...but the companies started locking their dumpsters up at night. I got some really nice stuff...hardware and software! I once got a full PageMaker that came bundled with Windows 1.0!
I lol'd at Joshua
Could have gone with Pencil
clone the hard drive if you cannot get the software and licensing free...
My very first thought...
I think the software might require some sort of burn-in license chip to work.
But it's a good idea to clone the hard drive anyway, otherwise this thing would become useless when the hard drive dies.
I figure it would be tied to a code in one of the roms on the oscilloscope cards.
Really not much need for any high security copy protection as it probably wouldn't work right without the exact same hardware.
Most of the $$$$ in these is the hardware as the amps and high speed ADCs needed are not cheap.
Patchuchan i agree, but wouldn't chance it in the event is not.
Patchuchan Actually, comparing to the cost making the software, the hardware almost costs like nothing at all. I'd say most of the cost making the hardware goes calibrating the thing.
If it's not for the software, you might as well just buy a USB oscilloscope kit and hook it up to a PC and call it a day. True, you can't find such high-end one as a USB kit, and you still have to pay a hell lot to calibrate it if it's such high-end, but the point is, you'll still spend more money on the software, assuming that you are not pirating it.
Put a SSD in it and mirror the disk, would help A LOT on the "slowness"
"bit of bloody aluminum in there"
Heh. Literally.
cooler master fan is shit so is the hard-drive
You missed the other five units thrown out the next day...
Such a weird case! We need $herlock Holme$ to solve it!
Maybe the employee disconnected the power plug then claimed it was defective and must be thrown away in the trash so he could collect it later but Dave got there first?! ;D
Well finders keepers.
Is that an April 1st thing? Posted in advance? oO
He lives where its tomorrow already.
According to youtube here, it was posted on march 31st, but I think that's ok...
Erick Moraes it was posted on the 31st where you live but maybe not where he lives.
LoL Good One.
April Fools it really is. :)
April Isosceles!! Such sharply-angled short-based jokes simply will not do fine sir
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure! Although an old video, you have to love the story. Love your channel too.
Years ago I found a nice 2 channel scope in a dumpster.. not as fancy as that one.. so I can believe it... Wish I still had it.. bummer I sold it...
Oh man, that was cruel. :) When I was initially watching this, it was still 31-st of March in my timezone...
I offered 5 bucks but only if the mouse comes with it . I need a new mouse
gman S LMAO!!)
I found plans to an old EICO scope in their dumpster back in the 1960s. Tube technology, with terminal strips. No printed circuits!
I have an EICO 460 but it doesnt work
is that what it is
Shahriar must be face palming himself at this hour 😅😂😊
Password: "Joshua"
LOL!
MatchstalkMan I loved that one. I also know the original reference
Would you upgrade the internals of the standard computer parts? e.g. CPU and HDD, making it a bit speedier to load / process data
Considering it talks to scope part via SATA it would be super easy to screw up compatibility. Even with standard PCI/PCIe expansion cards that aren't just some generic i/o port card, compatibility lists are a thing for a reason. Plus software might require reactivation, etc. Actually I wonder what Agilent's reaction would be if someone would contact support with a software problem on a scope that was found in a dumpster :)
Some f*cking 'Engineers' threw this out with a fault I could have found when I was 6!!! Nice one Dave - made my weekend! :D
Dave, you found the Golden Ticket Easter Egg in a dumpster, don't beat yourself up about it, mate. It's called serendipity.
Really torn if this is an April Fools joke or not... Seems like Dave's sense of humour, and the power connector fix seems a bit too easy. But the biggest doubt that this is real comes from the Windows desktop which displays numerous files. Seeing that this is a serious piece of research equipment, there would most certainly be proprietary information stored on there, if not intellectual property. And Dave seems far too conscientious and professional to just blindly put that kind of work up for sale on eBay, rather than at least attempting to return it.
It's more than likely to be a joke, so don't worry :)
Holy Shit! you mustve damn near shit yourself when you saw that thing. Unbelievable.
There is a brown stain on the floor.
Hi, Dave. We are from "LAB-GRX-PPA-8" here. Ummm.... this is hard to ask... but ummm, we would like our "working" scope back please.
Thank you. ;-)
I swear, some people are so lucky. If a meteorite hit Australia, it would land in your backyard, and weigh 20 kilos of pure gold!
This will be perfect to go in your 4000 m2 lab you moved into!
It's not worth your time Dave,,, they throw it back. Have a nice day!!
oh! hi ! you here too ;)
Hey i just watched you april fools video :D
You like EEVblog too, thats so cool!
8:54 *banana for scaling a 32 GHz scope* ??? Did not know that bananas were so precise !!! Wooow absolute mindblower !!!
I will go and tell it everywhere.
Great find, but wait until you go to Aquire the input probes to suit. I bought a Tektronix 7404 based on specs without knowing everything about it except it was a 4 GHz machine. The cost of getting the SMA or BNC input adaptors were hundreds of dollars and the probes cost thousands!
send it to the hydraulic press channel
Put it in front of some kids for a Millennials React to $300,000 Oscilloscope video.
Hahahaha...I mean, wtf is it with that red hot knife? What do people expect?
Send it to AvE first. Gotta check for chooch factor
aye she's a real skookum choocher wa?
Do NOT send it to AvE, are u kidding me?
Are you going to install it in your space at the old Altium offices?
Haha funny enough, I actually found a Fluke Multimeter hidden away in work space I had rented a few years back.
Not quite a find like this but definitely a winner at the time
The meter actually had the owners name on the label and a contact number
Anyway, after a bit of hunting around I manage to find the guy on Facebook and found out he left the country for good and told me to keep it as he had no more use for it :)
The crazy thing is, that week I was looking on flea Bay at cheap replacement DMM then stumble on this.
But the most important question remains: Can it run Crysis?
Actually yeah, it should, it is a windows computer.
Probably was missing a Retina display... also would have dumped it.
Keep it? Sell it?
Am I the only one who things that Dave planted this in the dumper?
Also Interesting that Matlab is installed on the windows environment.
nope! especially after the keystone "find" earlier in the month
It is like Christmas. Every year they start preparing earlier to leave behind rivals. =))
I doubt it considering the lab serial number and business card taped to it. I work in a lab, and all of our equipment has the same soo looks legit to me.
Maybe any youtuber other than Dave I'd be inclined to agree. Everything I know about him from watching him for years leads me to believe he's too honest to do something like that. Not being a fanboy, this is an honest assessment. He really has that much integrity.
Sidney NSW is UTC(Zulu) + 11:00
This is the most epic April fools joke ever
Amazing find! Good on ya mate! I think is the appropriate Aussie expression.
It seems bizarre, but I know these things happen here in corporate America, too. I got a call from a tech buddy a couple of years ago who told me he saw an Agilent spectrum analyzer in a dumpster in an alley in an industrial park as he was cruising through, but it was too awkward for him to take home on his bicycle, so he called me and told me it was all mine if I wanted it.
So I pulled an Agilent Spectrum analyzer out of the dumpster, fixed it back up for a couple hundred bucks and sold it on eBay for $17K. Since I was "between opportunities" it paid the rent for several months. I've done the same with smaller, cheaper equipment occasionally, but I continue to hear stories about 50GHz network analyzers and such getting tossed in the dumpster at government research facilities because they were 'defective' and 'not repairable', (which usually means an intermittent keypad or something,) and I just want to cry. Since I hear those stories from the warehouse people who tossed them out I tend to believe them. It's a crazy world we live in.
could be that someone who works at the company pulled that cable loose and put it in the dumpster hoping to come along later and get it. You got there ahead of them.
Could it be he did it so he could throw it away and pick it up himself?
This is an April fool joke
Plot Twist: He threw it in the dumpster before filming
Looks like it has had a firmware (software?) update. The interface is Keysight branded, and the front panel is Agilent.
I also wonder if someone intentionally wiggled the connector loose so their employer would trash it so they could pull it out of the dumpster and repair it for home use (or e-bay sales).
I guess the problem with hiding the upload date on yt videos, is that april fools videos get recirculated 6 years later. The stuff of legend I suppose
for 6 figures they could have fitted an SSD.
in those days SSD maybe was not a thing...In 2007-2008 SSDs had a very low capacity...
Peter Bočan it has ddr4.... wasnt even finalised till like 2012
Oh, does it?
Peter Bočan yep, see the part were dave mentions the ddr4 test option which alone cost 4.5k towards the end
Anas Malas But werd ssd's enterprise-level reliably yet in 2012? (Honestly don't know, always bad at hardware history)
But is it microphonic?
With right or the wrong connectors on? Good "point".
I can see it now; someone walks into the room ruining a running hi-freq measurement. Ha Ha Haaa.
Fixing that stuff is why Agilent got the big bucks for it.
I don't believe an ordinary person would bought such high-precision equipment and then dump it without trying to see if there is a simple repair. It must either belong to a rich guy or a highly profitable company.
Holy crap, someone almost knew you were somewhere there and wanted to drop you a gift :)
So, the only thing it took was resetting the plug on the power supply mains connector? Lucky you. This thing could be veeeeery useful for all kinds of radio frequency applications.
I bet it was the find of the century, if not millennium!
Not a big fan of this april fools cancer posting day, I will just go cry in the corner now.
I loved the War Games reference. Great video!
This is incredible! What a great find!
I hope you find a buyer for this thing.
So a top Hi Tech company bought the most expensive oscillo on the market along with all the expensive plug-ins but was not able to diagnose and fix a lose power connector. Let me guess. The boss is Elizabeth Holmes?
Some cheeky bugger disabled it on purpose and planned to come back for it but you got there first!
I wanted to steal that Vista license :(
No soup for you.
...for one year! :-)
They put Vista on a 300K scope? Fire who ever did it!
Bezalel Geretz
You don't play with Windows activation much... That boot animation was 7, so the Vista key would have been inactive for plenty long enough for MS to happily reactive on new hardware... Ignoring the fact support ends in a few days, of course.
vista?
It clearly must be windows 7 when it says windows 7 in the boot menu
My mate dived in the dumpster. Gave me the Bosch portable drill he found. Appeared to be working. I removed the old dead Ni-Cad battery and wired it to an AC-DC power supply that could supply up to 350W using 12V DC. I tested the drill under full load using an 8 cell laptop battery and with paired it with the correct thickness gauge of copper wire for the amp load. I checked with with a DC wire thickness calculator. So basically I had a cheap drill that ran off AC (using my AC to DC lab bench power supply). Used it to drill a couple of holes then put it down and took a break in the next room. Smelled burning plasitic smell and returned to find the cable all gooey & melted into the carpet! Quickly turned off the power and with oven gloves moved it to the bathroom. The cable insulation was so melted it was not far away from the copper wire of the positive contacting the negative and probably a fire. So the dumpster dive and all my work ended up in only half the job done and a nasty carpet burn that will probably put me in debt quite a bit to replace all the carpet. So after analysis of the scenario I believe the fault was most likely the drill causing a short since the trigger was not on at the time and I did do the calculations correctly for the thickness gauge of copper wire (even when the drill trigger was on and under load). Never the less I am not a trained electrical engineer and so this is is a sketchy and costly amatueur leaning experiment! Take heed folks dumpster diving and amatuer electrical engineering projects can be costly and potentially de-stabalise your living arrangement (if you don't own your own place)!!
On the one hand, it is probably just a joke and he borrowed it and already gave it back. On the other hand, it is quite possible to find something like this in the dumpster, because when an employee is stealing it they have to hide it somewhere that they can access at a later time.
Man after my own heart! What a find. Keep on ratting in the bins bro!
"Joshua" Love the WarGames reference lol
I had a little chuckle when Dave mentioned Joshua
The comment below "I'm a rich Nigerian prince and you found my scope... ' hahahah! The scope is the dumpster find of the decade and the comment should also get a prize hahaha!
I'm just seeing this video now. Even though I see it was an April fools joke, I know that stuff like this actually does get thrown away by large and even small corporations, usually after 5+ years though when its been depreciated on taxes (US). It wouldn't surprise me much if a company threw such an expensive piece away without trying to fix it. Looking into it you'd probably find someone who wants the new latest oscilloscope and suddenly the current one is "broken". Maybe that person had planned to dumpster dive?
hi...I once found I school technology lab analog scope that didn't have any other functionality other than demonstrating that something happened and it changed something! I mean 32GHz! It is the dumpster find of the year!
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Somebody unplugged that cable so they could say it was broken and get a new modern one.....just saying.
One thing to consider is maybe it was bought without any sort of a warranty program and would have cost a lot to get someone to pop it open.
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