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Sony/Tektronix History

Posted on August 29, 2017 by VTMarch 12, 2021

With the help of a few ex-Tek and ex-Sony/Tektronix employees who have graciously provided information, photos, and scans, we now have a fairly complete page on Sony/Tek history.  It is located under “Information and Resources”>”Locations and Subsidiaries”>”Tektronix Locations”>”Sony/Tektronix”. Under “Information … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized

August 2017 Update

Posted on August 15, 2017 by VTMarch 12, 2021

Today is the 100th anniversary of Jack Murdock’s birthday. Melvin “Jack” Murdock was born in Portland on August 15, 1917. Jack went by his middle name as did his friend and business partner Charles “Howard” Vollum whom he met in … Continue reading →

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A Very Successful Grand Opening

Posted on July 24, 2017 by VTMarch 12, 2021

The vintageTEK museum just completed two very successful events at our new location. We participated in a Tektronix company-wide event on July 20th with a vintageTEK booth and a Grand Opening and T-Shirt give away for Tektronix employees at the … Continue reading →

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Tektronix CRT History

Posted on July 16, 2017 by VTMarch 12, 2021

The vintageTEK website is proud to host a six-part article written by former Tek engineer Peter Keller.  These articles were first published in The Tube Collector and are provided with the permission of the publisher and the author.  They describe in detail … Continue reading →

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vintageTEK Press Release for Grand Opening

Posted on July 13, 2017 by VTMarch 12, 2021

  For questions  please contact: Bob Haas  503-310-7829 Email: m.r.haas@comcast.net   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE vintageTEK Museum Announces Its Public Grand Opening Delivering on its Mission to Share Engineering Knowledge and History through an Active Museum and STEM Education Facility   … Continue reading →

Posted in Museum Events

vintageTEK Grand Opening

Posted on July 10, 2017 by VTMarch 12, 2021

The vintageTEK museum invites you to our Grand Opening at our new location on the Tektronix campus. Saturday, July 22nd 10:00 am to 6:00 pm 13489 SW Karl Braun Dr Beaverton, OR, 97077 Our location is on the southeast side … Continue reading →

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vintageTEK enhances website

Posted on July 1, 2017 by VTMarch 12, 2021

Volunteers at the museum have been busy the past 6+ months with the move and reorganization of the museum at our new location on the Tektronix campus.  Now that things are settling down, we are getting back into our regular … Continue reading →

Posted in Museum Events

vintageTEK Moves to a New Home

Posted on January 25, 2017 by VTMarch 12, 2021

The vintageTEK Museum has a new home on the Tektronix Beaverton Campus. Thanks to the many museum volunteers who helped move the equipment to the new location. Below are videos of packing up for the move. The bottom two are … Continue reading →

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Oregonian On vintageTEK Move

Posted on January 23, 2017 by VTMarch 12, 2021
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Blog Author: Ed Sinclair

Posted on January 23, 2017 by VTMarch 12, 2021

A Tektronix Field Engineer in Los Angeles Region from 1968 to 1972, Ed was promoted to Army Account Manager in Philadelphia. After earning a Marketing Degree (cum laude) at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, he moved to Beaverton in … Continue reading →

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General Radio Company Develops 535-A scope in 1931

Posted on July 5, 2012 by VTMarch 12, 2021

I recently obtained a copy of A History of The General Radio Company, published in 1965 by Arthur E. Thiessen Board Chairman of General Radio. The management style and policies of GR as Tek employees later referred to it, were strikingly similar to those … Continue reading →

Posted in History

vintageTEK Web Store Opened June 5, 2012

Posted on June 13, 2012 by VTMarch 12, 2021

We have opened a vintageTEK web store located at www.vintageTEK.org/zenczrt In addition to the publications we have been selling at the Museum, we are adding several exciting new publications (electronic format only). These include Stan Griffiths Classic Oscilloscopes: Selecting and … Continue reading →

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Tek Electron Microscope Donated to Museum

Posted on June 13, 2012 by VTMarch 12, 2021

The family of the late Dr. Gertrude Rempfer donated the Tektronix Electron Microscope prototype that the Tek group was working on around 1968 when the project was canceled. Bruce Baur, John Addis, and Ed Sinclair, assisted by Gert’s son Willie Rempfer loaded … Continue reading →

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vintageTEK Corporate Donation Brochure Completed

Posted on April 29, 2012 by VTMarch 12, 2021

The vintageTEK museum has completed our corporate donation brochure which we will use to solicit donations from cold war era corporations that were instrumental in Tek’s success during the 1945-1985 period of technological advancement. Our staff conceived this project with … Continue reading →

Posted in Donors, EE Academy, History

Website Adds Volunteers Wanted Menu

Posted on April 11, 2012 by VTMarch 12, 2021

We have added a Volunteers Wanted Menu button to our Home Page to inform vintageTEK Museum Members of our needs for Volunteers. We have a solid group of regular volunteers who repair and refurbish instruments and bench test equipment, organize our … Continue reading →

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vintageTEK Renews Lease and announces Donor Programs

Posted on March 26, 2012 by VTMarch 12, 2021

vintageTEK has recently renewed our lease with our landlord Gary Hoselton for two years, to June 2014. Gary, an ex-Tek, has been a generaous supporter of vintageTEK objectives since our inception. We are putting the finishing touches on two brochures, one developed as … Continue reading →

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vintageTEK Donor Wall

Posted on February 4, 2012 by VTMarch 12, 2021

Donor Wall A Reality (Click photo for full size, and again to magnify) We want to thank Rod Gilbert, an ex-Tek ME, who is also an accomplished woodworker, for the marvelous job he did on building the Donor Wall for our … Continue reading →

Posted in Donors

New Tek Cartoon found in 524AD manual

Posted on February 4, 2012 by VTMarch 12, 2021

Phil Crosby a current vintageTEK volunteer discovered a new Tek Cartoon (A pinup girl in a bathing suit) in the manual of the 524AD he is refurbising for the Museum’s TV Equipment Display. Unfortunately, this manual is on microfische and I cannot scan … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Publications | Tagged Cartoons

vintageTEK Donor Wall nears completion

Posted on January 7, 2012 by VTMarch 12, 2021

The Museum erected our Donor Wall yesterday to Honor our many wonderful donors who have made the museum a reality. We are awaiting only the brass plaque with our color logo (1) and the brass name plates honoring our donors (2): … Continue reading →

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vintageTEK Donations can now be done via our website www.vintagetek.org

Posted on December 5, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

vintageTEK is now set up to accept and process donations on our website www.vintagetek.org . You can find a DONATE NOW button in the LH Column on every page except the Blog Page: Click on the DONATE NOW button; Select … Continue reading →

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Tek coffee cup collection donated to Museum

Posted on November 22, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

This month ex-Tek Linda Morrisson donated her extensive coffee cup collection to the vintageTEK Museum. I was surprised to even find one I commissioned for the Mobile Calibration Team, consulting for Ed Vaughan in the Service Division at Merlo Road … Continue reading →

Posted in Donors, employees, History

Jim Williams – analog circuit designer

Posted on November 18, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

Jim Williams an analog circuit designer, Tek aficionado, and author, passed away from a stroke in June 2011. The San Jose Mercury News just published an article on Jim and his workbench that was world renowned. It has been enshrined … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Tek Aficionados

Co-author of Nanoscale Memory Device Article visits Museum

Posted on November 17, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

Saturday we had a visitor accompanied by his son. The father had several Tek friends, owned several Tek scopes, and was a career geologist. His son, Will Gannett, is a Ph D candidate in Physics attending Berkeley. As any proud father might, dad had … Continue reading →

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Early Cathode Ray Tube Department Photos

Posted on November 10, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

I have created an Adobe Acrobat file of 23 Early CRT Department Photos we would like identified so we can post them on our website. Since we have a very active ex-employee group from CRT that meets regularly, I have … Continue reading →

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Winning With People Author – Oregonian Article

Posted on November 9, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

Marshall Lee, Pacific University History Professor, is interviewed by the Oregonian on a date unknown (approximately 1986) regarding his work with Tektronix. Marshall told me that Earl Wantland hired him to create a Tektronix corporate archive, and only later was … Continue reading →

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Planting High-Technology Seeds Tektronix’s Role in the Creation of Portland’s Silicon Forest

Posted on November 8, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

I have requested permission from Heike Mayer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech, for permission to reprint her article Planting High-Technology Seeds Tektronix’s Role in the Creation of Portland’s Silicon Forest on our website. As … Continue reading →

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Transcript of Howard Vollum 1984 Video Interviews

Posted on November 6, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

Howard Vollum agreed to sit down for three videotaped interviews regarding Tektronix History in 1984. They were conducted by Jim Castles, the lawyer who drew up the Tek incorporation papers in 1945 and 1946, and years later became Tektronix General … Continue reading →

Posted in employees, History, Publications

vintageTEK Is Reprinting “My Years At Tektronix”

Posted on October 30, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

2018 Update vintageTEK is now reprinting and selling this book on our eBay store as well as in our museum. vintageTEK is reprinting My Years At Tektronix 1945-1953. Miles was an original Tektronix Founder, along with Howard Vollum, Jack Murdock, … Continue reading →

Posted in employees, History | Tagged Glenn McDowell, Howard Vollum, Jack Murdock, Tek Founder, Tek History 1945-1953

Richard Lincoln Ropiequet

Posted on October 27, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

Richard L. Ropiequet died of a stroke on April 25,2011 in Grass Valley, CA with his devoted family surrounding him. Born in St. Louis, Mo., and educated in Illinois, he graduated with a degree in chemical engineering in 1944 and … Continue reading →

Posted in EE Academy, employees, History | Tagged Dick Ropiequet, Engineering Manager, EVP Engineering, Rope

IBM Customer Engineering Manual of Instruction – Tektronix Oscilloscopes

Posted on October 26, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

The attached 1960 document: IBM Customer Engineering Manual of Instruction – Tektronix Oscilloscopes, was recently discovered by Pete Lancashire and called to our attention. This was produced by IBM in August 1960 and was a step-by-step tutorial on scopes, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Equipment, History | Tagged 1960, IBM, Tek Oscilloscopes Manual

C. Norman Winningstad

Posted on October 26, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

When we began design of this new website our departed friend and colleague C. Norman Winningstad had recently died. I felt it would not be proper to take this article down until the public had seen our tribute to Norm, … Continue reading →

Posted in employees | Tagged C. Norman Winningstad, Norm, Winningstad

Social Media Director for www.vintagetek.org website

Posted on October 25, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

vintagetek Museum is soliciting volunteers for Social Media “savvy”  individuals to assist us in positioning our Social Media efforts on facebook, twitter, Google+, etc A few weeks ago, I signed up for facebook, twitter, and Google+ and do not have … Continue reading →

Posted in employees, Volunteers | Tagged facebook, Google+, Social Media, twitter, volunteers

Managing Director – Museum EE Academy For pre-Teens

Posted on October 25, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

The vintageTEK Museum in Portland, OR would like to open the Nomination process for a Managing Director of a Saturday Academy for what is being referred to internally by various names, from the Geek Academy, EE Academy, to the vintageTEK … Continue reading →

Posted in EE Academy, employees | Tagged EE Academy, Managing Director

Breakthroughs throughout push scope to 1 GHz

Posted on October 23, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

With the recent donation by Chris Curtin of the cutaway 7104 micro-channel-plate CRT, I made a call for 7104/mcp information via ex-Tek gateslist, and John Addis immediately responded with a pointer to the Electronic Design January 18, 1979 article by … Continue reading →

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Engineering News Wanted

Posted on October 22, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

vintageTEK has received a number of Engineering News publications for our Library. The intact ones are dated from 1978 with a front cover title Engineering News and were Company Confidential at the time. We are curious about two things. First the format of Engineering … Continue reading →

Posted in Equipment, History, Publications | Tagged Engineering News, Tek Pulication

Technology Reports Wanted

Posted on October 22, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

vintageTEK has received a number of Technology Reports for our Library The intact ones are dated from 1982 through 1985 with a front cover title TEK Information For Technologists and were Company Confidential at the time. The full issues we … Continue reading →

Posted in Equipment, History | Tagged Technology Reports, Tek Publication

Bob Anderson 1966 article: The Storage Story

Posted on October 20, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

I spoke with Bob Anderson yesterday, and we will soon be making an announcement of an accolade he will be receiving for his invention of the DVST – Direct View Storage Tube. We are attaching his article which appeared in … Continue reading →

Posted in employees, History | Tagged Bi-stable Storage, Bob Anderson, DVST, Electronic Design

John Kobbe recollections: Tek 500 Series Developments

Posted on October 20, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

John Kobbe recently jotted down his recollections of Tek’s development of the 500 Series oscilloscopes. Starting with the 310/315 he charts the evolution of many developments, including Howard Vollum’s desire to incorporate plug-in vertical amplifiers, and build our own CRT’s … Continue reading →

Posted in employees, Equipment, History | Tagged 500 Series Development, 530 Series, 540 Series, 570, 575, Curve Tracers, John Kobbe, post accelerator CRT

Magnificent Grand Opening

Posted on September 23, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

Our Grand Opening was very successful following the excellent article appearing on the Front Page of the Business section of the Oregonian Thursday September 15, 2011. We had over 200 visitors, with donations exceeding our highest expectations. Visitors started arriving … Continue reading →

Posted in Museum Events | Tagged Grand Opening, John Kobbe, Museum, Scott Foster, Ward Cunningham

Museum Grand Opening September 16, 2011

Posted on August 15, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

vintageTEK, a Museum for vintage Tektronix equipment and memorabilia from the Tek heyday 1946-1985 will open for Public Viewing Friday September 16, 2011 at 9am. Public Hours will be Fridays and Saturdays only until our Volunteer Cadre is fully determined.Technical … Continue reading →

Posted in Donors, employees, Equipment, History | Tagged Grand Opening, Museum, Public Hours

Pentrix Acquired by Tektronix

Posted on April 16, 2011 by VTMay 7, 2022

Pentrix, a manufacturer of Spectrum Analyzer plug-ins for the Tek 530/540 Series was acquired by Tektronix about 1964. They first designed the L10 for NASA. Following the acquisition, they designed the 1L20 and 1L30, and later the 1L5. These successes … Continue reading →

Posted in employees, History | Tagged 1L10, 1L20, 1L301L5, Frequency Domain Insrtuments, Frequency domain Instrumentation, Frisch, L10, Nute, Spectrum Analyzers, Weiss

TV’s Mr. Wizard Demo’s Tek Scope on NBC TV

Posted on April 7, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

A Story that explains the background and filming of the movie Ask Mr Wizard, The Oscilloscope was published in TekWeek July 21, 1961. Rick LeForge, Field Engineer at Tek’s Long Island office, was present at the show rehearsals in New … Continue reading →

Posted in EE Academy, Equipment, History | Tagged Ask Mr Wizard, Mr Wizard, NBC, Rick Leforge FE, The Oscilloscope

Tektronix’ Court of Claims case ‘est finis’

Posted on March 29, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

The January 19, 1979 the  TekWeek headline reads: Tektronix’ Court of Claims case ‘est finis’.View Here The lawsuit was filed by Tektronix in February 1961. The U.S. Government – Army Signal Corps and US Air Force – awarded contracts for … Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged Court of Claims, Hickock, Jetronics, LaVoie Labs, Lawsuit, Patent Violations

Frank Hood’s Nickname

Posted on February 2, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

Frank Hood became so famous internally for his great movie productions at Tektronix, beginning with The Tek Spirit, that he became known as “Cecil B. DeHood” amongst his colleagues! Jim Cook recalled this nickname in a 2010 discussion over lunch. … Continue reading →

Posted in employees | Tagged Cecil B. DeHood, Frank Hood, growth, Howard Vollum, Movie Productions

The Vollum cathode ray oscilloscope

Posted on February 2, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

According to Frank Hood in a 1985 Biography he wrote: “The first mention of Tektronix and the oscilloscope was in the April 1948 issue of the magazine ELECTRONICS. It was not called the 511 but only called “The Vollum portable … Continue reading →

Posted in Equipment | Tagged 511, April 1948, donate, Electronics Magazine, Howard Vollum, Museum, Tek's First PR Insertion, volunteers

Logan Belleville Moves to MIT Radiation Lab in WW2

Posted on January 25, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

In Howard’s 1984 Interview, Jim Castles asks him if Logan Belleville ever worked at MIT and Howard could not recall. In my recent meeting with Logan’s significant other, Holly Black Belleville, she said Logan was Secretary of the local IRE … Continue reading →

Posted in employees | Tagged Holly Black, Howard Vollum, Logan Belleville, MIT Radiation Labs, OR, Portland, US Forest Service Radio Lab

Wanted Volunteers to Record TEK History

Posted on January 23, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

I awoke the other morning at 3am worried that so much Tek History is slipping through our fingers as we discuss a piece here and a piece there, I wanted to provide some way to collect and archive this information. … Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged Volunteers; Tek History

Selecting and Restoring A Classic

Posted on January 15, 2011 by VTMarch 12, 2021

Stan Griffiths has given vintageTEK permission to reprint his classic book “Selecting and Restoring a Classic” by Stan Griffiths, W7NI 1992. We will publish a Second Edition soon, adding it to our inventory of gifts for vintageTEK Donors. Ed Sinclair

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Posted in Donors | Tagged vintageTEK; Donor Gifts; Selecting and Repairing a Classic; Publications

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