Earlier this week, Maya announced to the family that she had declared her college major;  Electrical and Computer Engineering.  Although my degrees are in electrical engineering, I spent far more time studying computer architecture and logic design. I will admit that part of me is very thrilled with the direction she has chosen but I am also confident she came to the decision of her own accord.  This afternoon, out of the blue, she asked me if I had any electronic stuff she could have.  I quickly offered up a USB in-line tester and an AC outlet tester (which we had used during our electrical troubleshooting yesterday).  I then realized that I had the perfect item to pass down to her, a Tektronix oscilloscope that I have owned for 40 years.  I purchased the $3,000 piece of test equipment new with some financial assistance from my parents when I was in college, not the kind of thing most students would dream of spending their money on.  As a visual learner, however, there was nothing more fascinating to me than being able to see waveforms which represented the movement of invisible electrons.  In some ways, this oscilloscope is a symbol of my lifelong passion for and commitment to the field of engineering.  I can think of no more fitting item to pass down to Maya as she begins her own journey on a similar path.  This scope has long since been replaced by more advanced digital models but it is still a fine and very capable instrument.  It may be one of the most pristine surviving examples of this model and while only worth a fraction of its original cost, I suspect it may one day become valuable as a collectors item.