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Good old Soviet 100mHz Oscilliscope Workbench Wednesday

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u/Such-Assignment-1529 17d ago

It's a typical values and a standard BNC connectors - you can use any modern probes with is.

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u/fried_green_baloney 17d ago edited 16d ago

It's just the use of the Latin alphabet that's amusing.

On a scope with e.g. English wording everywhere, the notation would be of course not remarkable at all.

EDIT: In the Russian alphabet, pf would transliterate to пф -- I think.

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u/oxpoleon 17d ago

SI units are SI units. Everyone uses them (except nonscientific Americans).

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u/arsv 16d ago edited 15d ago

Soviet stuff typically had SI units written in Cyrillic, like мкФ instead of μF or МГц instead of MHz.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soviet_%28Armenian%29_K50-6_electrolytic_capacitors.jpg
(note 1984 date codes, it's not even the 60s or something)

However, in some areas like test equipment, Latin script for units was quite common.