Bill Brown and Gary Nelson, two long-time veterans of the CRT operation, visited the vintageTEK museum. Bill started work at Tek in 1956 where he took over for Joe Griffiths as a glass blower in the CRT group. Bill personally built the prototype tubes for the 1GHz 519 and 519C oscilloscopes. He was later assigned to be manager of the Engineering Tube Lab (ETL), a role he kept for the remainder of his time at Tek. He and his group were responsible for most all new CRT prototype builds. The ETL, located on the second floor of Building 50, was composed of a talented group of craftsmen and women who were skilled in all aspects of CRT construction.

Bill was well known for his positive, can-do attitude, his level-headed common sense and his productive salmon fishing adventures. For several new tube designs where CRT manufacturing was not ready to take production responsibility, the tube lab bridged the gap by producing early ship-quality tubes until the manufacturing group came up to speed. Bill retired from Tek in 1993.

Gary Nelson started at Tek as a janitor in Building 13 while he was attending college in Portland. He later worked in an assembly group in scope manufacturing. After receiving a physics degree, he was hired into Connie Wilson's group in 1968 in Building 50 where he was responsible for several CRT designs, including for the 492 spectrum analyzer and the 5111 and 335 oscilloscopes. He was project manager for development of the color CRT used in the 4115B graphics monitor. Connie Wilson assigned Gary with the lead design responsibility for the CRT to be used in the 465 portable scope which turned out to be one of the best-selling Tek scopes of all time. The T465 CRT, shown between Gary and Bill in the photo, was used in more than 25 Tek instruments and is the highest-volume CRT Tek ever made. Gary worked at Tek until the early 1990s.