re scope questions if my life depended on it i d say that it s a scope that uses long persistance phosphor to keep the successive taces on the screen for some unit of time store them do i get to live we ll let you live but just this once there s more to a real storage scope than just a long persistence phosphor actually the phosphor isn t usually anything special at all what makes a storage tube work is a screen placed just behind the phosphor which becomes charged as the electron beam intially writes the trace with the trace now written to the screen a separate low level flood electron gun keeps the image lit by exciting those areas of phosphor which are next to the written areas on the storage screen there are some problems with this the resolution is limited compared to a non storage tube and the stored trace tends to bloom with time of course this is pretty much obsolete technology done in by the current digital scopes which use raster scan displays and keep everything in a frame buffer memory anyways filip i ll buy a vowel gieszczykiewicz best e mail fmgst pitt edu ah yes from the same people who brought you that amazing new reading program that s sweeping eastern europe hooked on consonants bob myers kc ew hewlett packard co opinions expressed here are not systems technology div those of my employer or any other myers fc hp com fort collins colorado sentient life form on this planet
