We have added a Volunteers Wanted menu button to our home page with information on how to volunteer and our needs. We have a small group of local volunteers who repair and refurbish instruments and bench test equipment, organize our … Continue reading →
Donor Wall A Reality (Click photo for full size) 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 Museum. A reminder … Continue reading →
Phil Crosby a current vintageTEK volunteer discovered a new cartoon in the manual of the 524AD he is refurbishing for the Museum’s TV Equipment Display. Stan Griffiths and Bill Den Beste cataloged these cartoons for years, beginning with the first … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Miles Tippery was one of the four founders of Tektronix. Jack Murdock met Miles in the Coast Guard and after the war Jack Murdock, Howard Vollum, Miles Tippery, and Glen McDowell decided to form a company together to develop and … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
The January 19, 1979 the TekWeek headline reads: Tektronix’ Court of Claims case ‘est finis’. The lawsuit was filed by Tektronix in February 1961. The U.S. Government – Army Signal Corps and US Air Force – awarded contracts for the … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
