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The main market driver for that scopes being was IBM. | |||
The wanted a portable scope for Computer Field Engineers to use for working on mainframe computers. I guess they did not buy the fact that the Tek 545 was portable, it did have handles! | |||
In addition, they had a requirement that the scope would fit under an airline seat, another reason for its size and the front cover. | |||
The 453 also marks the first time that any oscilloscope (or maybe any other piece of test equipment) had a lockable tilt bail dual duty handle. | |||
Tek held a patent on that feature as well as some of the other ergonomics that made up the 400 series. | |||
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