Comment by ChrisMarshallNY

Comment by ChrisMarshallNY 6 hours ago

It's very "movie-friendly."

HP stuff is too beige/bland. Tektronix stuff is more colorful.

Some of the Japanese brands were even more colorful, but we always used either Tektronix, or HP, where I worked (I used to write GPIB controller programs for them).

stmw 2 hours ago

Some of the Tektronix CRT scopes had unique phosphor colors or compositions, so it adds a lot of extra cinematic flare. https://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/Phosphor

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chemotaxis 3 hours ago

There are just two photos in the entire gallery of 150+ that show modern scopes. The rest is vintage CRT equipment, going back to black-and-white films.

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bombcar 4 hours ago

It also is just the right era to fit a hugely wide range of periods - you can get away with them into the 20s or 30s if you're doing a bit of retro futurism, and they're not out of place even today.

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