Instrumentation: Digital storage oscilloscopes: Digital scopes may evolve like the digital multimeter, offering data-capture, transfer, and processing in addition to present capabilities
Albert F. Shackil · IEEE Spectrum · 1980
Considers the latest developments in digital storage oscilloscopes such as vast increases in the storage bandwidth, ability to store waveform data indefinitely as well as capturing and displaying waveform measurements. Also the possibility of interfacing with computers is explored which allows automatic signal processing and waveform analysis and the results can be displayed on the oscilloscope screen or transferred to another part of a larger test system for storage, further processing or documentation. Common waveform measurements can also be easily computed with a single key stroke. Another advantage of digital storage oscilloscopes is that most can store several waveforms and permit the waveform data to be stored and read out repeatedly without fading or blooming of the trace.