Introduction of www.vintagetek.org
It is our great pleasure to introduce our website www.vintagetek.org to communicate our objectives and progress towards building a Brick and Mortar Museum, to commemorate the Founding, Hyper Growth, and Market Share Dominance “eras” of Tektronix, Inc.
While our initial focus will be on the eras of cathode ray oscilloscopes, we intend to refurbish and display Information Display Division products, and many other Tektronix developments over the same eras. We are also planning a Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda wing, to show various Tektronix developments that dared fame, such as the Magnolia personal workstation, 4051, the Cintra calculator, electron microscope, machine control, etc.
Come with us on our journey please, you will be surprised and delighted to see not only the products that made Tek famous, but those that might have been!
Screening of “The Tek Spirit” Last Sunday
Stan and Pat Griffiths, Ed and Trish Sinclair and their son Devon; and many other ex-Tektronix employees who participated, viewed the Oregon Public Broadcasting – The Oregon Experience production on the early history of Tektronix, Inc. We were very pleased to see they did a wonderful job of capturing “The Tek Spirit”.
The Producer, Nadine Jelsing, and Editor Lisa Suinnkallem need to be commended for an outstanding production. Thank You ladies, for professionally depicting a company we all admired.
Remember, the show will air on Monday May 3rd 2010, at 9pm on Oregon Public Broadcasting Channel 10 in Portland.
For those of you that would like to purchase copies of the The Tek Spirit on DVD, vintageTEK will be re-selling these to ex-TEK employees at the OPB price of $19.95, plus $5.00 shipping. Please order copies for yourself and Families from us, as we make a small margin on this product.
Following this introductory period, vintageTEK will offer The Tek Spirit as a gift to donors, among other gifts, in exchange for donations.
Fill out the form on the Membership page, and send $24.95 to our Beaverton PO Box and the DVD’s will be sent promptly after receipt. OPB said they will not be immediately available after the May 3rd showing, but mid-May is a likely delivery date. Use your DVR/VCR copy until we ship please.
vintageTEK Org
PO Box 2330
Beaverton, OR 97075-2330
If you have additional Questions regarding our plans, or would like to Volunteer, Please contact our Board Members:
Stan Griffiths |
Ed Sinclair eds@vintagetek.org 503-209-5894 |
Thank you for supporting vintageTEK.org
Introducing our www.vintagetek Webmaster
Our new Webmaster, Brian A. Heifner, a volunteer like all of us at vintageTEK, is an ex-Tektronix employee who has graciously volunteered to help us develop this site. His lovely wife Jackie Heifner attended the Tek Retirees Luncheon last Saturday to represent the Heifners (Brian was in class). She too is an ex-Tektronix employee, and we are thankful to have their assistance and participation. Thanks to you both. The site went live on 4/30/2010.