Hmm, I don’t use a soldering station since I use a high watt iron since what I work is mostly point to point wires to say a tube socket. I’ve got a low wattage grounded iron for circuit boards and regular work. I’ve never had a complaint about a Weller station when I used one at work many years ago, I’ve never even heard of a Pace soldering station; from their website, it looks like a quality piece of equipment.
The scope has to be a 7000 series, it looks exactly like the 7904a I have. I’ve also got a 576 curve tracer and it’s screen is gray as well. The 577 is newer but it doesn’t look like what is in the picture and I believe, it’s a little narrower as well. The blue screen is what is throwing me off. It could be the result of the flash when they took the picture. It could be a storage scope but I’ve got one as well and on the top right side are all the buttons for the storage part.
I do some guitar amp repair on the side and use my pace for point to point wire and for tube sockets, etc... It works really well, you just have to have the right tip. If I had to buy one I probably wouldn’t own one (too pricey), but the ones I got were resurrected from the ash heap at work. Since all the replacement/consumable parts are expensive, I look for someone retiring a system like I have and cob all of their consumables since the new systems use different ones. I’m lucky to be able to do that because I’d still be using my old solder station, which was still certainly a step up from a weller (it was similar to a Hakko, but some other brand that Pace swallowed up). That did the job quite well also, but I did not have a heated solder extractor prior to my acquisition of the Pace MBT systems I have now. The Metcal systems and the OKI systems (OKI makes Metcal) don’t stand up to the rigors of the rework I do daily as compared to the Pace MBT systems - the new digital systems are really nice!
It’s odd that Tek used the 7000 series names back then and still use them today with the DPO/DSO scopes and such. That just confuses me all the more. I have a 576 with a green screen myself. If you look around for images Tek released several different versions of the same scope/curve trace model with different CRTs (some gray, some green, some blue). I have a 370A curve tracer at work and I absolutely enjoy using it. I just wish Tek didn’t discontinue the curve tracer line a few years back!