Photo Of The Month

As we continue to work our way through our archive of photos, we run across some that are a bit out of the ordinary. They may be humorous or unique but they stand out from the other photos. We will post new photos here monthly with the previous photos in the slideshow.

Our March 2021 Photo of the Month is from the May 1962 National Geographic Magazine. It shows the Telstar development at the Bell Telphone Labroatories in Hillside, NJ. There are 27 instruments shown in the photo. Of the 27 instruments shown, 26 are Tektronix.

Photo courtesy of National Geographic Magazine

Previous Photos of the Month

Feb 2019 PoM - Clyde Faber, actual final inspector, poses for February 1957 TekTalk article
Mar 2019 PoM - Processing selenium rectifiers at the Sunset Plant in 1957
Apr 2019 PoM - Jim Geddes washing a DEC minicomputer after a water leak dissolved the ceiling tiles - and it worked!
May 2019 PoM - Howard Vollum & Dennis Hedberg at Oriental Theater with Dynatrack 3M tape recorder in 1969. Photo by Rodgers Jenkins.
June 2019 PoM - Cable Operations flexible coax shield winding machine. These were repurposed shoelace weavers from the turn of the century.
July 2019 PoM: Construction of the new Technical Center building 50 from the 1964 Annual Report
Aug 2019 POM: Howard Vollum at his home organ
Sept 2019 POM: 511 and 512 oscilloscopes in process at the Hawthorne plant circa 1949
Oct 2019 POM: Dick Rhiger bench at Hawthorne for the 517 Development
Nov 2019 POM: Building 39 Assembly East first floor shipping dock (at the building south end) in ~1968
Dec 2019 POM: 2200 Series Oscilloscope high volume line
Jan 2020 POM: Hand-taped PCB layout
Feb 2020 POM: 524AD oscilloscope sent in for repairs
Mar 2020 POM: Used in Tek lunchrooms to keep the bread fresh
Apr 2020 POM: Tek received an award for beautification of Oregon from Governor Hatfield. Fall 1966 TekTalk.
May 2020 POM: John receiving speech therapy at Portland's Tucker-Mason Oral School.
June 2020 POM: Family Night at Plant 2
July 2020 POM: Women pointing at a 945 Militarized Oscilloscope. We have no clue.
Aug 2020 POM: Mysterious vintage dual CRT instrument. We have no idea.
Sept 2020 POM: Employee performing a 422 portable oscilloscope exploded board test.
Oct 2020 POM: Wilsonville Bldg 60 prior to the addition of the EMI and Safety lab, ~ late 1970s.
Nov 2020 POM: Night photo of the entrance to the Sunset plant.
Dec 2020 POM: Telequipment D83 oscilloscope sent in for repairs.
Jan 2021 POM: Type 1100 Storage Display Unit. We do not know if this ever was produced.
Feb 2021 POM: Cliff Moulton working on a prototype of the 519 1 GHz oscilloscope.
Mar 2021 POM: Telstar development showing 26 Tektronix Instruments - May 1962 National Geographic Magazine