![]() Plus, who has a floppy drive to read that disk anymore? But if you’ve read any of my other blog posts, you know I have a habit of finding ways to revive old but still useful technology that’s long since been left behind. Alas, the software was written back in the 16-bit days and won’t run on the 64-bit operating systems on most modern PCs. The ProbeScope included a floppy disk with software on it for both DOS and Windows that allowed you to view the waveforms on your PC by connecting the ProbeScope to the PC’s serial port. I also used it to help me debug the code I wrote to emulate serial communications in the microcontroller for my Digital Setting Circles project. Its sampling rate, as I recall, was 4MHz, meaning you could use it to at least detect the presence of RF in a circuit. I bought one back in the late ’90s and found it to be fairly handy for a number of things. ![]() If you’ve been geeking out for a couple decades, chances are you at least saw the Radio Shack ProbeScope at some point in time.
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