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>Today, if you want to get a picture from your oscilloscope — maybe to send to a collaborator or to stick in a document or blog post — it is super easy. You can push an image to a USB stick or sometimes even just use the scope’s PC or web interface to save the picture directly to your computer. Of course, if it is on the computer, you could use normal screen capture software. But that hasn’t always been the case. Back in the days when scopes were heavy and expensive, if you wanted to capture an image from the tube, you took a picture. While you might be able to hold up your camera to the screen, they made specific cameras just for this purpose.

Archive: https://archive.today/z5Ue3 From the post: >>Today, if you want to get a picture from your oscilloscope — maybe to send to a collaborator or to stick in a document or blog post — it is super easy. You can push an image to a USB stick or sometimes even just use the scope’s PC or web interface to save the picture directly to your computer. Of course, if it is on the computer, you could use normal screen capture software. But that hasn’t always been the case. Back in the days when scopes were heavy and expensive, if you wanted to capture an image from the tube, you took a picture. While you might be able to hold up your camera to the screen, they made specific cameras just for this purpose.
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In my earliest days of recording oscilloscope traces I had to use a Polaroid with b/w film. By around +/-1983 IIRC we started using HP scopes that connected to plotters thay copied the traces on to paper with ink pens. Later on, floppy disks and microdisks ...

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I've got one of those stupid things for a Tek 465 in a box here. It's in the "Go to hamfest" pile, even has some 669 with it.

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The last time I used a Polaroid was around 2001 with macro tubes trying to locate photon emissions (hot spots) on a uP die while cycling through test patterns on a prober. Really long exposure times. I had to cloak the prober in thick black cloth so no external light could interfere with the exposure. Our Quality Group owned the equipment but ironically didn't have the skill set/ambition to use it, so I figured it out and did it myself. I forgot about that group until this Polaroid conversation. I was urked about it at the time, it was supposed to be one of their functions.

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Look at it this way - you got to use a piece of technology that probably no one will ever see again.