hmm.. maybe just give it back to the original owner.. would be a really good karma thing to do.

@allesklarklaus147

7 жыл бұрын

He doesn't believe in religion I think :D

@sgpch1983

7 жыл бұрын

im a atheist too.. but giving stuff back is moraly the right thing to do. dont you think?

@noobingame9291

7 жыл бұрын

After the whoever owned it before was ready to mash it instead of giving it away? This is April fools video btw.

@sczygiel

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah that would be my reaction as well :) There is a bussiness card and most likely it would be easy to track the owner to at least ask why it was dumped. But I will go with the aprils fool explanation :) I forgot they are sometime ahead of me :)

@allesklarklaus147

7 жыл бұрын

It was in the dumpster so he saved the poor scope from beeing shredded into little 32gig pieces :) In terms of morality it all depends on what model you choose and stuff. If the scope owner was throwing it out and dave really likes it how would it be moral if he gives it back? He would be really sad and the owner doesn't give a shit. If he kept it he would be happy and the owner still doesn't give a shit so option two would be overall better in that situation. If one follows the Bible or I. Kant steeling would be bad so giving it back is the right choice!

Dave went and bought a $300k scope but said he "found" it so his wife doesnt kill him. What a hero.

@chaos.corner

7 жыл бұрын

Don't be so cynical. I found a sports motorcycle in the dumpster last week.

@rodstartube

7 жыл бұрын

lol, wives are the same everywhere

@thekaiser4333

7 жыл бұрын

If your wife does not like your oscilloscope, change your wife.

@LifeOnHoth

7 жыл бұрын

wife need calibration ;)

@AdamCchannel

7 жыл бұрын

Yup, gotta use that calibration port on the front panel every once in a while :D

I started to consider moving to Australia. I will find a ranch, a house and wife in a dumpster.

@TheCarpenterUnion

5 жыл бұрын

Can buy all 3 with that scope

@enysuntra1347

4 жыл бұрын

Nah. Spouse in a dumpster may have all sorts of short circuits, software faults and hardware flaws. It's criminal you don't have to have mandatory Spouse insurance and a current service contract for them.

@ArztvomDienst

4 жыл бұрын

Haha your comment made my day! xD

@baasbassinnababylonrobert-9963

4 жыл бұрын

You can have my wife! Brand new!

@agvulpine

4 жыл бұрын

@@baasbassinnababylonrobert-9963 She's not legally your wife until you remove her from the packaging.

I have to admit, this is one of the few internet April fools gags that genuinely had me fooled, for at least a few hours, until I realized that it was April 1. Nicely done, Dave.

Someone is looking at the empty bin and thinking: Where the f*ck is my scope which I prepared to take home at the evening?!

@cherry.7199

3 жыл бұрын

hahahaha happens to me all the time, the other day I left a microwave in the dumpster and wanted to take it home to realise that my neighbour took it home

only 16Ghz on 4 channel? throw this shit away dave

@EEVblog

7 жыл бұрын

I know, right. Useless.

@ikbendusan

7 жыл бұрын

that's why it ended up in the trash

@Slartibartfas042

7 жыл бұрын

lol - might be OK-ish for checking output Voltage of a battery! ;-) But seriously - isn't that frequency range the domain where it more and more comes to spectrum analysers? Are there really that much applications for a scope at such high frequencies? Just wondering...(?)

@Slartibartfas042

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, I know in digital domain you would need multiples of the given frequency to check for signal integrity issues, as you have to respect all the harmonics up to at least 5 times the frequency you're providing your digital circuit, but is that really done this way? According to Fourier rectangular voltage output can be splitted into a sum of multiple signals being 1*V1+1/3*V3+1/5*V5+1/7*V7+....... with V3, V5, V7 and so on being some output of sine wave with a voltage of a 3rd, 5th, 7th or whatsoever of the base frequency output voltage. The higher the frequencies you do add to this sum, the closer you get to the rectangular voltage response. But is that in practice a way that is really used?

I dug in dumpster but all I found was hepatitis

@12388753

7 жыл бұрын

I found a PS2 slim once

@PolakeXD

7 жыл бұрын

I only found a xbox 360 slim without hard drive but with 6 crappy games, a Porsche 911 posters, a lots of game cases without discs, fake galaxy s2, diving suit, a lot of paper and already activated Need for speed most wanted key : P Maybe because I visiting my uncle in the America only at summer...

@mUbase

7 жыл бұрын

I found a PS2 silver. Still got it. Don't know what to do with the bloody thing. I also found a nice 15" LCD TV with DVD player on the side, HDMI, Freeview and all the connections. It didn't work but I chased the fault to the power diodes and now it works fine. :)

@luncheonticket

7 жыл бұрын

open ps2 loader + smb = win

@P-Bass_Pete

6 жыл бұрын

I'll trade you for this AIDS needle sticking out of my foot!

That moment when you realize this was an April Fools joke :D

@stage666

7 жыл бұрын

haha we need more windows 10 vids pls!!

@themrenerd7384

6 жыл бұрын

Hey didn't expect you here

@mbaker335

6 жыл бұрын

A day early??????? "Published on 31 Mar 2017"

@TheFlighteur

6 жыл бұрын

mbaker335 it's because of Australia timezones, for Dave it was April the 1st

@KrissBartlett

6 жыл бұрын

no Jerry he is ridgy dige he is for real over the top personality hahhaha

"Hey look, I found me a new house in the dumpster"

@SnabbKassa

2 жыл бұрын

If that's Australian dollars, that wouldn't buy much of a house in the UK now.

@hashtag-shaneiacs

2 жыл бұрын

@@SnabbKassa it could buy three in Malaysia.

"Hey Ed, our $300k scope doesn't turn on anymore." "Throw it in the dumpster, I'll sell you a new one."

@EEVblog

7 жыл бұрын

No flies on Ed

Looking at the date I would think that this was an early April fools joke.

I'm super envious of your amazing find! If it were me I'd just put it on the bench and pet it and talk to it once in a while. :-)

Dave man seriously you get me every time! good one! You have just gave me that little false hope i needed to continue dreaming that a find like this could actually happen... Keep up the good work mate!

Put doom on it!

@JediNg135

7 жыл бұрын

Underrated

@macdonalds1972

7 жыл бұрын

It has an onboard GPU, I doubt it will even run Doom 3.

@ChozoSR388

7 жыл бұрын

If you're not trying to be funny, your username fits a few days early, too lol

@S.ASmith

7 жыл бұрын

If it can run Win7 it can run Tiberium Sun if you really wanted. So it can definately run Doom.

@qbasic16

7 жыл бұрын

Age of Empires II

so, this is what happened: someone from the company owning the scope manipulated the power plug and hoped to make a few bucks from selling it. Unfortunately for the poor guy, Dave spotted it before he finished his shift and recovered it.

I didn't know half the things you said, but I was excited watching you be excited about this find :-P

Oh no Dave, you ruined an employee's plan to embezzle this machine! ;D

@jkepps

5 жыл бұрын

Same thing I thought!

@therugburnz

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I've seen pallets of test gear at military surplus auctions only to find out the fuses had been changed to half amp fuses. Most of them needed two amps. I doubt more than one or two were bad considering the gavel price.

@irishguy200007

4 жыл бұрын

Watch the film. Employee Of The Month, where they are damaging stock so they get to bring them home for free.

@AlJay0032

4 жыл бұрын

My first thought

@dmeemd7787

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahahaha, yeah missing seals and a loose connector.. their best tech 'goes through it and it's fried' comes to get it later Granted people have done stupider things like throwing out a high quality piece of equipment without checking the fuse, people also have the car towed to the dealer because the battery is dead or is out of gas so... 🤷‍♂️ 😂😂

Why don't we have such Dumpsters in the Netherlands ! Only thing I find in the dumpsters is trash :p I'm Curious Please try tapping it, for the microphonic test

@EEVblog

7 жыл бұрын

Forgot about that!

@macdonalds1972

7 жыл бұрын

Because the Dutch are too cheap to throw anything that's still working away.

@CatNolara

7 жыл бұрын

You just need to find them. At my german university there's some construction going on, some institutes are moving around and throw old stuff away that isn't worth keeping. There were some really cool things in the electronics container until now, especially some retro gear from the GDR.

@RealButcher

7 жыл бұрын

Well... I used to go from dumpster to dumpster... because they would throw all sorts of stuff away... Even here in Holland... yes sir... Found a lot next to the road... Unfortunately they do not have these "trash-days" anymore in the city... I would drive around that evening.... had my own route... Mostly that were fridges and washing-machines and dryers... and some smaller stuff .. like Vinyl records... and pots and pans.. I used to have a kind of a lorry car... with a big capacity... So... it still works .. :-)

@dennisseuferling815

7 жыл бұрын

I live in the US and a tactic I use is checking electronic and office store dumpster. I have never found anything like Dave here but I do pretty comfortably. My homes security system and cameras came from an office depot dumpster.

Regardless of it's a April Fools joke or not it's a pretty awesome device.

Some of the dumpsters where I live used to have some super nice stuff for dumpster diving...but the companies started locking their dumpsters up at night. I got some really nice stuff...hardware and software! I once got a full PageMaker that came bundled with Windows 1.0!

When I was young, the dumpster was a primary sponsor of my electronics hobby

That squeaky noise you've been listening to for 14 minutes is Dave's mind exploding

Good April's fool joke, Dave! :)

@zwz.zdenek

7 жыл бұрын

This came out in March 31st. If it's a joke, it's poorly executed.

@miyu4043

7 жыл бұрын

It came out on March 31st for you. Dave is in Australia. The day starts a little bit earlier there. The wonders of time zones :)

@zwz.zdenek

7 жыл бұрын

I'm in a +2 timezone and I actually started watching it yesterday. He did upload it too early and the timezones don't justify the mistake. Don't even think this didn't occur to me. Not to mention that he targets American audience with like -5 to -7 hour shift, so he should have delayed the posting for them anyway.

@Greeegification

7 жыл бұрын

It's April fools somewhere! ;) (see eevblog2 episode about -12UTC to +14UTC timezone spread)

@tskedition

7 жыл бұрын

Because time zone i did not get it at first aswell

This is incredible! What a great find! I hope you find a buyer for this thing.

I found plans to an old EICO scope in their dumpster back in the 1960s. Tube technology, with terminal strips. No printed circuits!

@audiodood

4 жыл бұрын

I have an EICO 460 but it doesnt work

@audiodood

4 жыл бұрын

is that what it is

This is April fools but didn't Agilent send him a 9000 series for loan a few years ago, could be that he was allowed to keep it and this is it

Even if it is an april fools joke.... I have had all-sorts found dumped.... found a couple of Cisco 1841 routers 10 years ago or so, fully working - and various Servers etc... it's amazing what people throw out!!

@centori2011

5 жыл бұрын

What are you doing rummaging around the trash, were you one of the homeless? Don't you have better thing to do than pick through the trash???

@KingJellyfishII

5 жыл бұрын

@@centori2011 I hope you're being sarcastic because no, it's just if you see a server or something valuable in a bin then you might want to pick it up?

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure! Although an old video, you have to love the story. Love your channel too.

What a lucky person you are !!!! It is amazing what people will throw away. All I have ever found in a dumpster is a damaged music centre, and a broken radio/cassette player. I repaired both of them electrically, but the cabinets of both items were damaged beyond repair. so I just kept them, eventually after a few years, I cannibalised both of them for parts.

@SpeakingMath

4 жыл бұрын

Checked the date :)

@SpeakingMath

4 жыл бұрын

?

I found a engine in the dumpster at work Sold it for $100 Gave my buddy $20 for fishing it out for me Everyone was happy 😃

This is a fabulous April Fool's day video. I fell for it until I started reading the comments. What I wonder is, who lent him an infiniium to take apart for the making of the video?

@stienogamez8296

3 жыл бұрын

This was not made on april fools tho

@frother

3 жыл бұрын

@@stienogamez8296 time zones

@joshcook8586

2 жыл бұрын

@@frother he is in aus mate it was 31st of march when it was uploaded

These can be used a lot for developing and calibrating wideband receivers for SIGINT. They usually come with an exquisite box of calibration accessories including a torque drive for attaching the connectors.

Sawwweeeeeet. My best dumpster dive ever: behind a Zilog manufacturing building that had shut down the previous week. What did I get? Endless now antique test equipment, parts, and tools. I recall tears of joy. What did I do with that stuff? Tried to fend off my wife as she progressively threw it all away over the next twenty years.

Put a SSD in it and mirror the disk, would help A LOT on the "slowness"

This video is really about how to explain to your wife where you got a $300k scope.

@agranero6

6 ай бұрын

It fell from the back of a truck, darling.

I love the dumpster treasure finds. You are the awesome recycling specialist.

WOW! That's a great oscilloscope find! Much better than the old Textronix scope I found in a dumpster. It was the 1980's and I was in college. All it needed was some contact cleaner and I had a perfectly good scope.

APRIL FOOLS! Only real engineers would use a bit of kit like this, and real engineers don't dump anything this expensive without being 100% sure that it's knackered.

@m1k869

7 жыл бұрын

shush

@dougspurell2387

7 жыл бұрын

As I am sure you know, the legal requirement is "Make it inoperable." If Dave is not pulling a joke on us, I agree that no engineer would let it go so easy. Non-engineers (asset managers etc) could be the culprits. I also, like others here, believe it not to be random. All that aside, Dave, you are giving us great technical and entertainment content.

@gblargg

7 жыл бұрын

Oh damn it, totally fooled me. And I remember too last year when he did one, seemingly a day early because of Aussie time.

@4516n41

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah it would have to be in an explosion/fire or a truck ran over it five times.

@matthiasBdot

7 жыл бұрын

it was uploaded top early eben Forum aussie time

Awesome april fools... but I think the real joke is they used a bloody Cooler Master fan on a $300k oscilloscope! Could at least use Noctua for that price...

@leocomerford

5 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure the reason the owners threw it out was because the fan isn't RGB.

@CofeeAuLait

5 жыл бұрын

Noctua? PPPPFT. Gentle Typhoons are the real contenders here.

@dbmaster46446

4 жыл бұрын

on a intel core2duo ? did noctua exzist these days ?

@edherdman9973

4 жыл бұрын

@@dbmaster46446 yep

@jakebradminster709

4 жыл бұрын

That would have put them over the $299,999.99 retail price.

"bit of bloody aluminum in there" Heh. Literally.

@jessiedover6561

4 жыл бұрын

cooler master fan is shit so is the hard-drive

8:54 *banana for scaling a 32 GHz scope* ??? Did not know that bananas were so precise !!! Wooow absolute mindblower !!! I will go and tell it everywhere.

This will be perfect to go in your 4000 m2 lab you moved into!

You know... some of you are claiming this is an April Fool's joke and the posting date would support such a suspicion, but I can't find anywhere it is stated... so perhaps can EEVBlog weigh in or can you point me to where that already happened (yeah I'm a year late to the party, bugger off)? I could believe either scenario. I've found some ludicrously valuable things in ditches, dumpsters, and random parking lots... so.. why not? That said, this is a tad bit of a stretch so I'm wary of believing especially given the date. A year later it cant be ruining the joke to clue a guy in, right? :)

Mate I love the slang in your videos, just priceless. Not to mention all the valuable info I farm from your channels :D God bless you

best 1st april joke in my life !!!

Dave, does it pass the ceramic capacitor micro-phonics test? Whack it with a hammer !

@EEVblog

7 жыл бұрын

50ohm input only, almost certainly not a problem.

@vincei4252

7 жыл бұрын

Darn :( :-)

Awesome. I recently found a HP Spectrum Analyser in ours, just re-capped the power supply and she's a beauty. Not only that... got an email from KeySight today saying they wanted me to have a 4-channel scope on condition I showed it on my youtube channel... despite only having 116 subscribers!

@EEVblog

7 жыл бұрын

116 subs and you got a scope offer?

@NivagSwerdna

7 жыл бұрын

Must be our lucky day!

@ender_scythe2879

7 жыл бұрын

If Keysight is sending you a scope at 116 subscribers you're in for a real treat soon enough.

@JaymzBond

7 жыл бұрын

EEVblog somebody is jealous? 😉

@spankeyfish

7 жыл бұрын

April Fool's?

Great find, but wait until you go to Aquire the input probes to suit. I bought a Tektronix 7404 based on specs without knowing everything about it except it was a 4 GHz machine. The cost of getting the SMA or BNC input adaptors were hundreds of dollars and the probes cost thousands!

That is an awesome find! I was really surprised that it was just a simple loose plug keeping it from working!I found a projector in a e-waste dump a few years back that had the exact same problem.A ribbon had worked loose from its connection and it wouldn't power on. As I removed the top the ribbon popped right up. It's an Epson Powerlite Pro Cinema 800. Must have been worth about 3k new. The bulb has a capacity of 3000 hrs. and only 300 used! Still using it to this day! It's capable of making a 300 inch display and has a single HDMI port along with every other type of input.Needless to say I am hooked on dumpster diving and still finding great stuff!Can't beat that find though! Congrats!

@Scyth3934

2 жыл бұрын

sorry to reply to such an old comment, but this was an april fools video haha

Such a weird case! We need $herlock Holme$ to solve it! Maybe the employee disconnected the power plug then claimed it was defective and must be thrown away in the trash so he could collect it later but Dave got there first?! ;D Well finders keepers.

Password: "Joshua" LOL!

@the_eminent_Joshua_E_Hrouda

5 жыл бұрын

MatchstalkMan I loved that one. I also know the original reference

Shahriar must be face palming himself at this hour 😅😂😊

"Why's this oscilloscope so special?" "Well, you know, we have it dual booting windows and Linux, it comes with 32 gb of ram and has 2 gtx 1080s running in sli..."

Man after my own heart! What a find. Keep on ratting in the bins bro!

The guys in the tech firm just dumped it to see if Dave would blow his mind.

@veraxis9961

7 жыл бұрын

Maybe the real April fool's joke was being played on Dave and this video is genuine... >:-)

Looks like it has had a firmware (software?) update. The interface is Keysight branded, and the front panel is Agilent. I also wonder if someone intentionally wiggled the connector loose so their employer would trash it so they could pull it out of the dumpster and repair it for home use (or e-bay sales).

I've seen one of these. An older one for testing lasers on MRI launch units. I think it was 8 or 10gsps. I would love to have a scope like that for doing sidechannels and measuring jitter.

Oh man, that was cruel. :) When I was initially watching this, it was still 31-st of March in my timezone...

Haha funny enough, I actually found a Fluke Multimeter hidden away in work space I had rented a few years back. Not quite a find like this but definitely a winner at the time The meter actually had the owners name on the label and a contact number Anyway, after a bit of hunting around I manage to find the guy on Facebook and found out he left the country for good and told me to keep it as he had no more use for it :) The crazy thing is, that week I was looking on flea Bay at cheap replacement DMM then stumble on this.

I found a Dranits ( not sure of the spelling as it was 20 years ago) power quality monitor with data logging, headed for the dumpster. With permission I took it home. It had all the cables,manuals and software. A quick test showed it appeared to work just fine. I sold it on Ebay for close to $5000. Now that was a score.

Dave, do you have any other scopes that have video output? I know this scope is way overkill for you, but you should be able to set up video mirroring through one of the ports on the back and feed it into a capture card -- might make video production easier or offer better quality/flexibility.

@EEVblog

7 жыл бұрын

Yes I can do that, but it's not easier. 10% extra in production value like that adds 10 times the hassle.

I loved the War Games reference. Great video!

There are so many things thrown away with only a small fault. Its always good to see if something brought back to.

😂 had fun... looking your joy

I was mad envious watching this, not going to lie....

@aneeshprasobhan

7 жыл бұрын

Me too, till I saw the video publish date . :P

@binaryglitch64

6 жыл бұрын

Aneesh Prasobhan, the fact that it's a joke doesn't take away from the fact that he has it and I don't... the date changes nothing for me. I'm so efing sick of being so pore that at least once a month I have to literally take proof-of-purchases off of pizza boxes from dumpsters so that I can scam a free pizza because I wouldn't get to eat otherwise, mean while I am doing everything I can to get the basic equipment required to teach myself technology. I built my computer for free from dumpster diving... my soldering iron is homemade, my multimeter was a gift a friend bought me from a yard sale, my salvaged components are cut free from their silicone via a hack saw because my iron isn't good enough to desolder... my first soldering iron was a butter knife and a hot plate... I still use it sometimes... okay my equipment envy is no joke. It literally hurts to watch people on KZread do EE because I actually cry some nights thinking why can't I just be happy being pore and just do whatever the f**k other pore people do rather than feeling compelled to pursue teach, why do I want to be a programmer, hardware and software hacker, and an electrical engineer... I want to be all of those things, I want to be the best at them the world has ever seen, I want it so bad I can taste it... yet I can't afford to get through tomorrow alive without doing something that violates my ethics... much less get the equipment for independent study nor can I attend proper schooling... ever try to maintain a schedule at my level of poverty... how about maintaining focus consistently while malnourished... how about grants paying tuition but not books and supplies, trust me, I've tried, I've tried hard enough, so don't even go there, I've pushed for this for over 20 years (I'm not outta my 30's) ... I am not done, I will never give up, so I will triumph or die trying.. but my can do attitude can't be maintained 27/7/365... so I do get down, I do cry, I do feel like giving up at times, I do get petty, I do get jealous, and it does suck.. so no, the fact that this is just an April fools joke doesn't quite fix that for me... he still has more equipment than he could possibly find an excuse to use, lots of it is free shit that people send to him, yet I'd cry tears of joy to have just a cheap (but professionally manufactured) pencil soldering iron... much less a top of the line soldering station... some components that have never been used and have a better than not chance at working... with full length pins... yeah that's the stuff of my dreams, that's for people who can afford to maintain a bank account and have $5 to spare for a phat sack of components form eBay... the slow boat from China... people complain about waiting for that, I want to smack them, I wish I had the privilege of waiting... oh that's library security, gotta go.

It's not worth your time Dave,,, they throw it back. Have a nice day!!

@MRooodddvvv

7 жыл бұрын

oh! hi ! you here too ;)

@themrenerd7384

7 жыл бұрын

Hey i just watched you april fools video :D

@alistairstuart2009

6 жыл бұрын

You like EEVblog too, thats so cool!

Years ago I found a nice 2 channel scope in a dumpster.. not as fancy as that one.. so I can believe it... Wish I still had it.. bummer I sold it...

plz dont stop dumpster diving, love it

You could try to find the company that trashed it in the first place, they should be in the market for a scope like that right about now ;)

@Landrew0

7 жыл бұрын

Except that by now, someone has certainly shown this video to whomever was responsible, and their boss. So, I doubt anyone wants to admit to making such stupid choices.

@InfernosReaper

7 жыл бұрын

Unless they were just throwing it out to get new equipment. That sort of thing happens

@yougeo

7 жыл бұрын

Clearly company you have worked for the government or a big company . Quick break that so we can get a new one!

I just looked on eBay at all the oscilloscopes for sale and it looks like the 10ghz models are going for $3-6k USD used. I can't find one for sale on there over 16ghz period. I'm guessing this unit is probably still work $20-$40k USD. I would throw it up on eBay with a $40k reserve and see if you get any bites and make a video of you holding all the cash when you get it :D

@KF7JO

3 жыл бұрын

32 GHz 4-channel, fully loaded. $40k would be a steal.

Reminds me of the time I picked up a 16500 at an auction for $10 because everyone else had no idea of what it could do. 4 channels on the oscilloscope section and 64 channels on the LA.

I found the DSO-X 2014A on ebay, it is only a 100MHz model with 2GSa/s and it was going for $1,900.00 (US). I am sure that is still worth a good chunk of change as well. And while I do understand this may be a joke, would still be a hell of a thing to buy and own.

This is the most epic April fools joke ever

I lol'd at Joshua

@piggypiggypig1746

3 жыл бұрын

Could have gone with Pencil

I found it hard to believe at first, but actually fell for it for 11 minutes and 27 seconds! Dave is quite good at seeming genuinely amazed! Cool one;) Can't believe you guys told him to deliver it back to the owner!? WTF!?!?

Congratulations!!! Great find there!

Some cheeky bugger disabled it on purpose and planned to come back for it but you got there first!

Hi, Dave. We are from "LAB-GRX-PPA-8" here. Ummm.... this is hard to ask... but ummm, we would like our "working" scope back please. Thank you. ;-)

Just two observations: -General Waste? You would think would just lay it on the floor, being a minimum 20-25 kg beast. -31'st of March comes right before April 1'st

I love tuning into random satellite signals with a scope and receiver, with a scope this precise you could measure the doppler pitch of the signal and have a crude form of GPS.

"Joshua" Love the WarGames reference lol

@aisystemsnetau

3 жыл бұрын

I had a little chuckle when Dave mentioned Joshua

clone the hard drive if you cannot get the software and licensing free...

@EasyMac308

7 жыл бұрын

My very first thought...

@FlameRat_YehLon

7 жыл бұрын

I think the software might require some sort of burn-in license chip to work. But it's a good idea to clone the hard drive anyway, otherwise this thing would become useless when the hard drive dies.

@Patchuchan

7 жыл бұрын

I figure it would be tied to a code in one of the roms on the oscilloscope cards. Really not much need for any high security copy protection as it probably wouldn't work right without the exact same hardware. Most of the $$$$ in these is the hardware as the amps and high speed ADCs needed are not cheap.

@DanielTekmyster

7 жыл бұрын

Patchuchan i agree, but wouldn't chance it in the event is not.

@FlameRat_YehLon

7 жыл бұрын

Patchuchan Actually, comparing to the cost making the software, the hardware almost costs like nothing at all. I'd say most of the cost making the hardware goes calibrating the thing. If it's not for the software, you might as well just buy a USB oscilloscope kit and hook it up to a PC and call it a day. True, you can't find such high-end one as a USB kit, and you still have to pay a hell lot to calibrate it if it's such high-end, but the point is, you'll still spend more money on the software, assuming that you are not pirating it.

We use to have an old version of that on our Calibration truck. Was a lot of money. Maybe sell it through Melbourne. There was a dealer down there, but have forgot who it was.

"We are in, like Flynn!" lol! is that a "Tron" reference? nice one!

Some f*cking 'Engineers' threw this out with a fault I could have found when I was 6!!! Nice one Dave - made my weekend! :D

Probably was missing a Retina display... also would have dumped it.

@sokolum

7 жыл бұрын

Keep it? Sell it?

Fair play bud. Great find!! 👍👍

Equipment like this was used in the lab at my previous job developing SSDs at SanDisk. It's probably still there measuring things on latest flash drives.

Another youtube giveaway! Yay! I could use it to debug my arduino circuits ;)

Would you upgrade the internals of the standard computer parts? e.g. CPU and HDD, making it a bit speedier to load / process data

@ffmfg

7 жыл бұрын

Considering it talks to scope part via SATA it would be super easy to screw up compatibility. Even with standard PCI/PCIe expansion cards that aren't just some generic i/o port card, compatibility lists are a thing for a reason. Plus software might require reactivation, etc. Actually I wonder what Agilent's reaction would be if someone would contact support with a software problem on a scope that was found in a dumpster :)

Amazing find! Good on ya mate! I think is the appropriate Aussie expression. It seems bizarre, but I know these things happen here in corporate America, too. I got a call from a tech buddy a couple of years ago who told me he saw an Agilent spectrum analyzer in a dumpster in an alley in an industrial park as he was cruising through, but it was too awkward for him to take home on his bicycle, so he called me and told me it was all mine if I wanted it. So I pulled an Agilent Spectrum analyzer out of the dumpster, fixed it back up for a couple hundred bucks and sold it on eBay for $17K. Since I was "between opportunities" it paid the rent for several months. I've done the same with smaller, cheaper equipment occasionally, but I continue to hear stories about 50GHz network analyzers and such getting tossed in the dumpster at government research facilities because they were 'defective' and 'not repairable', (which usually means an intermittent keypad or something,) and I just want to cry. Since I hear those stories from the warehouse people who tossed them out I tend to believe them. It's a crazy world we live in.

My mate dived in the dumpster. Gave me the Bosch portable drill he found. Appeared to be working. I removed the old dead Ni-Cad battery and wired it to an AC-DC power supply that could supply up to 350W using 12V DC. I tested the drill under full load using an 8 cell laptop battery and with paired it with the correct thickness gauge of copper wire for the amp load. I checked with with a DC wire thickness calculator. So basically I had a cheap drill that ran off AC (using my AC to DC lab bench power supply). Used it to drill a couple of holes then put it down and took a break in the next room. Smelled burning plasitic smell and returned to find the cable all gooey & melted into the carpet! Quickly turned off the power and with oven gloves moved it to the bathroom. The cable insulation was so melted it was not far away from the copper wire of the positive contacting the negative and probably a fire. So the dumpster dive and all my work ended up in only half the job done and a nasty carpet burn that will probably put me in debt quite a bit to replace all the carpet. So after analysis of the scenario I believe the fault was most likely the drill causing a short since the trigger was not on at the time and I did do the calculations correctly for the thickness gauge of copper wire (even when the drill trigger was on and under load). Never the less I am not a trained electrical engineer and so this is is a sketchy and costly amatueur leaning experiment! Take heed folks dumpster diving and amatuer electrical engineering projects can be costly and potentially de-stabalise your living arrangement (if you don't own your own place)!!

could be that someone who works at the company pulled that cable loose and put it in the dumpster hoping to come along later and get it. You got there ahead of them.

@mikeymike4g63

4 жыл бұрын

Could it be he did it so he could throw it away and pick it up himself?

@tickertape1

4 жыл бұрын

This is an April fool joke

I offered 5 bucks but only if the mouse comes with it . I need a new mouse

@dtriplett03

7 жыл бұрын

gman S LMAO!!)

This thing will unlock your inner beast my friend. You are great!

ooohhh... here it is! i told my maid to clean up and she accidentally put it in the dumpster :D haha. good find dave. lovin it!

Ever think about trading it for a House on Aussie Craigslist? Wow, $300k. Unbelieveable.

Are you going to install it in your space at the old Altium offices?

This is the most successful April's fool YT video I have seen so far. Good work.

You are a classic Aussie Dave love your videos and a great find