So, last summer, I bought a nice little used oscilloscope - a used Tektronix TDS210. A 60 Mhz 2 channel scope. Got it cheap ($70) to supplement my analog 60Mhz scope.
It isn't bad, does 90% of what I wanted it to do, but there is one thing making me NUTS:
It is a monochrome display.
Doesn't sound like a big deal, right? It is. On they typical analog scope, you have a black graticule, and your signal(s) are green/blue. Easy to pull the signal from the background at a glance
On the monochrome display, with everything being the same color, it is hard to pull the signal (particularly DC) from the background, especially if the DC signal is on top of a graticule line!
The other thing is it didn't have the option pack, so no computer interface.
Not show stoppers, just annoying.
Oh well - a new color scope with much better specs would not be expensive. With some luck, I might fall into a new scope. We'll see
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