We provide tours on request, many of which are on closed days. Here are some photos from various requested tours from 2022 and 2023.
While not a tour, we were left this nice feedback on our eBay store - "'vintageTEK' is a group dedicated to the preservation of exemplary engineering, manufacturing and educational work performed by Tektronix. I lived in this time, chose Tek scopes for technicians given the reasons above. I applaud this organization because they are looking back to help young developing future engineers, hobbyists, techs to see what has been done to help guide them & inspire them to explore ways to imagine solutions to future problems. Please support vintageTEK. Thank you!"
MECOP (Multiple Engineering Cooperative Program) interns
The Society of Industrial Architecture held their 50th annual conference in Portland. As part of the conference they arranged tours for the attendees and included the vintageTEK museum as one of their stops.
After a couple of years of disrupted conferences, this June, the Society for Industrial Archeology will be meeting in Portland, Oregon. This will be the SIA’s first ever visit to Oregon, and only the second time in the Pacific Northwest. A wide variety of industrial sites are on the docket, ranging from settlement up through the truly modern and experimental.
F2 – Modern Industry (8:00-5:30) This tour will start with a visit to the Swan Island shipyard of Vigor Industrial. The next stop will be at VintageTEK, the museum for Tektronix equipment. Tektronix were instrumental in the development and refinement of oscilloscopes, while simultaneously founding the ”silicon forest” which later drew companies such as Xerox and Intel. After lunch, the tour will visit the Cascade Steel Rolling Mill. The final stop will be to The Great Oregon Wine Co.
We hosted two separate tours for the SIA. One individual wanted a longer tour so came in separately and later sent us this note. "I've been tardy in thanking you for Bob's terrific tour of vintageTEK. For me it was the highlight of our week in Portland. The poster showing all the companies that came out of Tektronix is a wonder ... especially Rodgers Organ."
Two groups from iUrban Teen toured the museum as part of their summer STEM program.
www.iurbanteen.org/ Our mission is to build an educational community rooted in trust, empowerment, inclusivity, and community, and to see all historically excluded students succeed.
A group of students from Salem Christian Academy came for a tour and hands-on STEM activities.
We had the pleasure of touring Deanna Groom, niece of Bob Groom, Managing Director of Telequipment, who was visiting the area. She is next to our operational D53A oscilloscope which volunteer Phil Crosby restored for the visit.
Afonso Teles, Application Engineer, and Vanessa Flesuras, Sr. Business and Process Analyst, from Tektronix visited the museum to ask our participation as moderator for the Tektronix my.tek.com TekTalk forum for Vintage and Retired Models. We said "yes".
Two Tektronix engineers, Matt and Paul, stopped by the museum to learn about the early history of the company.
We were pleased to tour Tektronix President, Chris Bohn, and his leadership team and share the mission, history, and exhibits at the museum.
A group from the Creekside Village Retirement Residence visited the museum with volunteers Pat Green and Phil Crosby conducting the tour. One of the visitors worked in CRT for 30 years and another's father worked for Tektronix.
Two Tektronix Service employees, one from China and one from Japan, visited the museum while on campus for training.
The museum was honored to host Barry Marshall for an extensive tour and visit. Barry is a Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, who along with Robin Warren showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) plays a major role in causing many peptic ulcers, challenging the conventional belief of stress and stomach acid.
Museum Chairman Bob Haas conducted the tour (left) and is shown here with Barry Marshall, Mehmet Aslan (VP of Tektronix Engineering and Product Development), and Adrian Black (YouTube channel Adrian's Digital Basement).
Dear Tek Museum team, Thank you for the tour and detailed insights into the technology. Especially to Bob Haas.
The museum toured five different groups of Tektronix interns over the summer.
Shelly & Dean visited us from Seattle along with Tektronix Application Engineer Anthony, and Account Manager for Oregon, Alaska, and Hawaii, Ken. Dean is a current Tektronix customer and a collector of some vintage Tektronix oscilloscopes. Shelly expecially enjoyed the Theremini and Eurorack synthesizer.
Mariaje & Javier visited us from Pamplona, Spain. We tried to find a suitable technical interpreter but they were able to follow our English-based tour.
They later sent us this photo of their collection.
