Yeah, once upon a time those boat anchors were the ducks guts. When I got into the electronics hobby in the early nineties I could only dream of having an oscilloscope, even the cheapest/simplest 20MHz ones were way out my teenage budget.
Now on my shelf I have a Tektronix 2465B (4 channel, 400MHz) which by many is considered to be one of the best "portable" scopes ever built. Price in 1990 $13k or about $31k in todays money. I payed a few hundred USD for it 10 years or so ago.

I basically never use the 2465B though. Whenever I need a scope I go for one of the digital. What you can get in a scope for a few hundred bucks today is just increadible.