It’s the Internet Wayback Machine to the rescue! The Internet Wayback Machine is an archive of snapshots of countless websites, allowing you to travel back in time to see those websites as they existed at various times in the past. My efforts to find the software for download on their support site were fruitless–I couldn’t even launch the site! But all hope is not lost. It doesn’t help matters that Radio Shack has essentially gone belly up.
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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