Probes are good. He gave me two NOS Tektronix scopes. They were still sealed in the bag. We opened and tested them and they seem to work. The scope is 100MHz, the probes are 150MHz. However the probes are x10 only. Is that going to be a problem? Should I buy some x1 probes?

Picked up an analog scope at a local surplus store since I've read in a lot of places that it's helpful to have an analog scope in addition to a digital one. I ended up with a Tektronix 468. I have to admit it was uncomfortable buying something used/final sale that I don't know anything about. The ...

I guess it surprised me a little as I routinely assemble PCs and never give a second thought to handling CPUs, video cards, etc without any kind of static protection. To date, I've never encountered an issue. I guess I should pick up an anti static mat and a wrist strap.

Does the wrist strap need ...

Just watched this amusing video from 1985 discussing ESD and the Apple II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNb3TUNf0A

Is ESD still as big of an issue? I mean, this video is showing styrofoam coffee cups inducing enough charge to short an IC. Have ICs become more resilient or is this still just as ...

Thanks for the replies.

I put in an order for the following equipment:

Rigol DS1102E Oscilloscope
Global Specialties 1310 Power Supply
Extech E330 DMM (as a backup/secondary for my Agilent)
DMM Leads for my Agilent (not too fond of the ones it comes with)
Solder (60/40, 2.2% flux, 0.6mm, thinnest ...

I'd like to build a 6502 based 8-bit computer. Something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKoRRA4MyM4
I want to be able to load/write small assembly programs, and hook up the system to a PC for input and output similar to the method shown in the video (although that's an eZ80 ...