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Sadly doesn't work anymore as it was dropped and damaged. Found it at an ewaste site with the idea to build an ITX pc inside with a little DIY digital oscilloscope replacing the screen connected to the audio out so you can see the wave form as you listen to music or play games

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sadly doesn’t work anymore as it was dropped and damaged.

Electronics that old are often pretty repairable...

[–] exocortex@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 days ago

They were designed to be repairable! The manuel shows you how to open everything up. I two very similar ones. (465 with a digital memory and a 475 and checked some manuals online. They're pretty extensive.

[–] NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah that's another reason that I haven't taken it apart yet because we get a guy once a year come to our lab that calibrated oscilloscopes for us and said this one is super easy to fix and he has parts for them if I ever reach out to him