Bill Webber's presentation to the Area Reps on 8/14/78. Topics covered were Tektronix History, the Area Rep System and the Tektronix lawsuit against the US Government for patent infringement.
Jack Murdock's presentation to the Portland Chamber of Commerce in November of 1966. The majority of Jack's presentation focuses on the effects of automation on society.
Howard Vollum's presentation to employees on December 22, 1958. Howard's presentation is about employee stock, the challenge ahead, and how the company will win.
Linda Brody of the Oregon Historical Society interviewed Howard Vollum on March 26 and April 14, 1980.
The Oregon Historical Society allows use of this Oral History Interview according to the following license:
Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial, ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA)
March 26, 1980 Oregon Historical Society Interview Side 1
March 26, 1980 Oregon Historical Society Interview Side 2
April 14, 1980 Oregon Historical Society Interview
Norm Winningstad 1996 interviews
The Oregon Historical Society revived the Oral History Program that had been so successful earlier. Norm agreed to be interviewed by Barbara Doyle. There were five 1 hour sessions over approximately eleven weeks held at Norm's home. The first 1.5 hours on tape 1 and half of tape 2 deals with his early life and his career at Tektronix. The full 5 hours of recordings are on the Pacific University's Digital Exhibits page [external website].
Tape 1
Tape 2
The Washington County Heritage Online (WCHO) site is a collaborative project that brings together historic images and documents from public and private institutions across Washington County, Oregon. Although mostly photographs, they do have audio recordings on their High Tech Collection page [external website].
These five ex-Tek employee recordings are part of the 20+ recordings in that collection and are located on the WCHO website
Bill Walker Part 1
Bill Walker Part 2
John Kobbe
Dave Squire
Pat Green
Tony Schmidt is the CFO at Rodgers Organ
Pat Tiedemann was a receptionist at the executive offices
Chuck Miller was an instructor in Field Training. Early on Sales Engineers were expected to be able to fully support customers with both sales and service. Sales Engineers were issued tool kits that consisted of the tools, transistors, and tubes needed for basic service. Here is Chuck's photo from the Employee Photo Album.
Training classes were held at the factory for six months of which half was devoted to troubleshooting techniques on the most popular products. These training tapes came later and were designed to be used in conjunction with the service manuals to learn troubleshooting. Eventually the Concept Books were developed as part of the curriculum for Field Training.
Circuit Descriptions With Chuck Miller