Tektronix 465: What Was Cost New?

If it works, I think you did alright.

http://www.testequipmentdepot.com/usedequipment/tektronix/oscilloscopes/465.htm

I think that is the same scope I have, although I got mine for free about 15 years ago from a company that went belly up. It works great, although now I wish I had a storage scope.

Yes, as far as I can tell, it works fine. And it has a 2008 calibration sticker on it from a well known company. Thanks for the link, I guess I did alright.

Anyone know the difference between the 465 and the 465B?

I'll have to dig through my archives. I have a flyer from Tek on the 465. Circa 1980 or so.

I still have a 465 that I obtained also from a company that went belly up. It's still going, a true work horse. $100 is a bargain.

Completed sales on eBay (last 60 days) show quite a lot of model 465's selling for $100 to $125, a few going for around $200, and some around $300.

You have to go back a ways to find that scope. Apparently it was introduced in the 1973 Tektronix catalog, page 143, where it cost $1725. They introduced it along with the 475, but only showed the photo of the 200MHz 475, which cost $2500. The 100MHz 465 deleted the 10 and 20ns/div timebase settings. By the 1981 catalog the model had been upgraded to the 465B, still only 100MHz, but cost $2600. By the 1984 catalog only the 465M military model remained, and this had gone by the 1986 catalog.

In the old days I had a model 485, and my memory is that with years of heavy use its timebase switch wore out (it was based on plastic bumps and leaf contacts to gold-plated pads the PCB, IIRC), and the scope had to be discarded. So that would be one thing to check on for an old used scope. I'd try for a newer 465B on eBay rather than a older 465. They're also going very cheaply.

Thanks for all the interesting info, Winfield. You must have quite a library of catalogs. Mine is the 465B, and $2600 was about a month's wages back then!