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by ericpauley 1133 days ago
Not nearly as cool, but rigol’s 1xx4 series had similar bypassable firmware restrictions. For a broke college student being able to get a 100mhz 4-channel scope (the class equipment was only 2 channel) for a few hundred bucks really simplified a lot of labs. I suspect the firmware protections were purposefully weak knowing it would gain cred with budding EEs.