560-series scopes

The 560 series scopes which were introduced with the 560 and 561 in 1961 were tube scopes that began to introduce some solid state circuitry. They use 2-series or 3-series vertical plug-ins and 2-series or 3-series horizontal plug-ins (exception: 560 only takes 2-series because of weak power supply).

560-series mainframes contain neither delay lines nor amplifier stages, requiring the plug-ins to drive the CRT deflection plates directly, at the disadvantage of needing to calibrate gain or sweep when swapping plug-ins.

These scopes are compatible with 5000-series plug-ins.

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  560 - Basic mainframe (1961)

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  561 (1961)

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  561A (1962)

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  564 - Storage scope (1962)

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  565 - Dual-beam scope, two plug-ins; built-in trigger, sweep, and horizontal amplifier (1963)

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  567 - Sampling scope with digital readout (1962)

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  568 - Sampling scope (1967)