DSO with PC inside may herald a revolution. (Scope-Station 140 digital storage oscilloscope from LeCroy Corp.) (Product Announcement)

EDN, August, 1993 by Strassberg, Dan

Contrary to what you might have read, the issue with LeCroy's ScopeStation 140 is not whether it's a PC or a DSO; it's a scope. Moreover, the unit's connectivity, though intriguing, merely hints at what makes the product so fascinating. The point is that because it incorporates a PC mother board with up to five free ISA bus slots, the ScopeStation has the potential to cause a revolution in instrumentation.

Perhaps you've tired of hearing how PCs will transform test and measurement. If no metamorphosis has taken place in all these years, why should this product cause one? It may not. But if there is a change, it will occur because the ScopeStation, unlike virtually every other PC-baseL measurement tool, isn't a PC or a peripheral; it is first and...

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