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That's really 90% of what I use a scope for but you don't have to look up with one of the probes.

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most of the cheap usb based ones can do both, the protocol decoding is just software

I can see the advantage of a scope with build in LA in that you can get bot h analog and logic/protocol on the same picture

Yeah, one might have been able to use a logic analyzer to trace/debug code. In 1987. It's not the 80s anymore; at the low end everything is integrated on-die, at the high end the processor is connected to a couple sticks of DDR4 at bus clocks pushing 1 GHz through a bajillion tiny traces.

There's a reason logic analyzers sell for next to nothing

I repaired hundreds of Commodore 64 computers with a Radio Shack logic probe. It's probably still in a workbench drawer out in the main shop, wich is three bays of the garage.

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you cat get a lot of info by toggling a few spare IOs

I connect an 0603 LED to at least one spare I/O of each programmable chip and others that have spare (or re-use another) GPIOs. Software types appreciate them and they can be deleted from the final BOM, so cost nothing.