I'm an IT Engineer with over 20 years experience and have always been a gadget junkie and handy at repairing things when they break down. As a kid I took a course in digital electronics and learned the basics of various IC's, logic gates , programming ICs, etc... and while I never did get into that field I absolutely enjoyed it. I'm working on a project to revive the very first virtual world (called Habitat) which operates on the Commodore 64, and I rescued my old Commodore (it's actually a 128) from my old basement, but it's in need of repair. I love a challenge, and I'd love to get back into digital electronics at the component level again... so I'm going to try and repair the Commodore and also dabble with other projects. I know an oscilloscope will come in very handy, but I don't want to spend a ton of money just yet.. I've done quite a bit of reading and watching YouTube videos on the topic and have found varied opinions on the matter. The opinions I've read are "stay away from cheap digital oscilloscopes as they're complete junk", and "get yourself a cheap analog scope, you can probably find one for free"
I don't know about that free part, but I do see some analog scopes for about $200 and change on eBay.. but I do see some digital scopes from Hantek and Sainsmart for under $100 which look l Ike they have more features.
I was wondering if someone here with experience in these devices might point me in the right direction of what to buy? Or maybe even where to buy an affordable first scope?
-Keith
I don't know about that free part, but I do see some analog scopes for about $200 and change on eBay.. but I do see some digital scopes from Hantek and Sainsmart for under $100 which look l Ike they have more features.
I was wondering if someone here with experience in these devices might point me in the right direction of what to buy? Or maybe even where to buy an affordable first scope?
-Keith