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 :)
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!
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.
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
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...(?)
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 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...
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. :)
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.
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
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.
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 .. :-)
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.
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.
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.
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... 🤷♂️ 😂😂
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!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 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?
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? :)
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
"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..."
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
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.
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.
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!
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 :)
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.
Really torn if this is an April Fools joke or not... Seems like Dave's sense of humour, and the power connector fix seems a bit too easy. But the biggest doubt that this is real comes from the Windows desktop which displays numerous files. Seeing that this is a serious piece of research equipment, there would most certainly be proprietary information stored on there, if not intellectual property. And Dave seems far too conscientious and professional to just blindly put that kind of work up for sale on eBay, rather than at least attempting to return it.
Bezalel Geretz You don't play with Windows activation much... That boot animation was 7, so the Vista key would have been inactive for plenty long enough for MS to happily reactive on new hardware... Ignoring the fact support ends in a few days, of course.
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.
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.
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.
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.
With right or the wrong connectors on? Good "point". I can see it now; someone walks into the room ruining a running hi-freq measurement. Ha Ha Haaa. Fixing that stuff is why Agilent got the big bucks for it.
Here in the States, in Las Vegas, NV especially, the trash collectors consider trash to be their private property. I too enjoy taking electronics apart, it's just my thing.
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 RU-vid 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.
hi...I once found I school technology lab analog scope that didn't have any other functionality other than demonstrating that something happened and it changed something! I mean 32GHz! It is the dumpster find of the year!
I have had three Seagate hard drives die catastrophic failure no possibility of recovering data. do not recommend to anyone and if a device has one clone it. Then replace it then destroy it. Yank it apart for anything you can use. Um nice refrigerator magnets. Or hard drive speaker. Obviously I'm a maker. it end of story. don't trust them farther than I can push it with a flick of a finger. And you can also give those things tge middle finger. they are crap drives. Unreliable they can be. they will fail. it's not a question if it will fail. it's a question of how long an. When. usually right before you back it up. is when it feels like it did for me all three times. three strikes you're out Seagate! I have heard horror stories about Seagate drives. cannot be trusted not heaven for your recycle bin Drive. Which they belong in the E-Waste Bin not in any type of functional device. I wish manufacturers would boycott their drives. Or better yet not buy them. And retailers and even wholesalers and everyone and get those drives off the market. It would be the best for evrey one involved.
@@resneptacle I have had 20 Seagate hard drives, I had one with a bearing fail. It was used when I got it. Western digital is different story. 8 out of 10 failed, horrible!
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).
