Thank you. I couldn't remember if it was the 7904, which could paint a picture of exceedingly fast events using a type of digital sampling or if it was the 7104. By the way, they used to put Tek scopes down the test blast holes of nuclear explosions. The signal would travel up some coaxial cable with the cable disintegrating right behind the signal. Yep, Tek was vital to our development of nuclear warheads. When I started with the company in 1969 I assembled some of those scopes. Also, the article was very accurate when it said no single object was moving faster than light it was simply a pattern of glowing dots and a phosphor screen that was being shaped by one dot after another. Trying to explain this to people was frustrating for me and for them. I used my scope in the early 80s. If memory serves me, it came out in the late 70s. I had an instructor in a night class who was on that development team. Amazingly, he had no college degree. A friend of mine from college was a design engineer working on the Tektronix 5000 series scopes. He took some time off and worked with a team that got the effective mass of a photon at a different quantity than was ever known before. My memory is foggy but I think they calculated it at about 1/3 of what they previously thought. Now, how cool is that?
As soon as I turned 16 I bought a 1958 English Ford Prefect for $150. It looked absolutely nowhere (nowhere) as good as the one below......and had 4 doors (car shown is an Anglia. Oops......)
1988 BMW 325. It was my dad's daily driver for a long time but once I turned 16 and he was serving in Iraq I got to cruise it around. He passed it on to me after he got back and bought himself a new car. That was a fun car to drive. Most work I ever put into a vehicle, to be honest. Probably saved thousands doing the work on that German engine by doing it ourselves. Had to replace the thermostat with my dad one time, which involved dropping the entire transmission, just to find out that wasn't the problem. Most angry I think I've ever seen him. Well, beside when my mom told him that she was pregnant for the 5th time.
63 Rambler Classic 660 4dr sedan, for $385 in 1971. Saved the money mowing lawns. Owned by a little old lady whose son didn't want her driving to church anymore. 65,000 miles on it, showroom condition with no dings and like new interior. Mine was 2 tone but with a pastel Green, not like the picture. Seats folded down to form a bed.
