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Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2026/08/23/Tektronix-TDS7104-Refurbishing.html
21•jwise0•57m ago

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devy•37m ago
Flebay has some used ones around $1.5k. I wonder how much this model MSRP brand new? Either way, $300 is a steal!
tverbeure•35m ago
I think they sold for $60k back in the early 2000s.
milleramp•32m ago
The TDS500, 600 and 700 series can expand memory by removing zero ohm resistors.
tverbeure•30m ago
My TDS754D is waiting for the resistor and capacitor mod that converts it from a 500MHz/2Gsps scope into a TDS784D with 1 GHz/4Gsps.

Still, entering an easy to generate license key is less intrusive than removing a resistor.

sdcfgy•25m ago
Give it a month and the acquisition ASICs will blow up and the caps will eat through the board traces. Can’t stand these scopes.
slhomme•3m ago
Love this. I knew nothing about oscilloscopes until just a few months ago, when reasearched and bought one from a science lab. It wasfor a personal side project. I gutted it out and installed a mini PC inside, and now i run AI models into it. It's like my personal AI assistance. Hooked up to OpenAI realtime voice, grok bot, claude code, etc so I can command it to do stuff even when my main computer is off.

I just mainly love the retro-moder look of it. Here's a link to how it looks, for those curious:

https://x.com/slhomme/status/1965131874734584291

I had now idea there was such a huge second-hand market for those. It was such a great opportunity to learn about this tech.

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