What are the advantages and disadvantages of the cathode ray oscilloscope?

Answer 1

Cathode ray oscilloscopes are relatively fragile and expensive. They can also be less accurate than other option. One advantage that they do have is that they are well protected from damage if a signal is significantly stronger than expected.

Answer 2

Some of the advantages of a digital oscilloscope over analog oscilloscope include the scope’s ability to store digital data for later viewing, upload to a computer, generate a hard copy or store on a diskette and its capacity to instantly make measurements on the digital data.