Brings back a lot of memories ! Thanks for the tour .. ( VE3RMR )

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They were the best.

Great video !!

I used a number of Textronix scopes through the years. My individual focus was the 561. I did a formal thesis on it in tech school. Some of them were in general research lab useage where I designed and built custom lab equipment. As if the operational aspect wasn't enough, some of them started to fail all with the same symptoms. Long story short, I discovered a significant design flaw which turned out to be an insulation weakness in the main power transformer. The CRT filament winding was arcing over to an adjacent winding because it was at the high voltage anode potential. After ordering an expensive exact replacement and taking quite a few hours to replace, I had another one fail in the same way. From that point on I merely disconnected the internal winding and ran the filament with an external generic transformer rated for the voltage in use. It probably only existed for other oscilloscope manufacturers, where Tek opted for their own custom design. I mounted them externally on the back of the chassis with proper insulation precautions and the modified units never failed that way again. As a sidenote I used silver bearing solder (not the same as silver solder) for repairs on the ceramic component standoff strips because there was an advisory that regular solder would leach out silver content in the strips. Maybe the special alloy was needed for the solder points in order to keep them held in place to the ceramic. I dunno. I never did get any more information than that other than to use the silver bearing solder my group kept on hand reserved for Textronix repairs and mods. I don't even know where the solder came from as it was already there when I was hired. It was a bit comical that whenever Tek put carry handles on a scope it became designated as "portable". I got a good laugh out of the crowd one time at a local Tektronix seminar when people were speculating on prices of certain models with two carry handles. They were big units. I quipped that Tektronix didn't make anything with two handles for less than $1,000. It turned out to be accurate when the salesperson came over to talk with us and revealed the price! Nice video. N1KHB

Thanks Randy, it took me back. I worked at Tek 1973-83 here in Guernsey ( UK) 73 and thanks for posting de GU4EON

Several of the best color printers I ever owned were Tektronix. It is unfortunate that their phase-change printers were killed off by Xerox, as their quality was astonishing. RIP.

Хм, не могу найти характеристик показанной в видео 31ЛН4, видимо, опытная была и малораспространенная

Great tour, excellent editing and descriptions! This old Ham, EE, Video Editor very much enjoyed every minute!!!

Really neat stuff. Thank you for the tour! 73, OH1CIR

Great tour - thanks! Some gorgeous pieces there! Any more info on that CRT with the AD PWA on it? Was that on the display end or the gun end and what would that have been used for?

its about thew only reason i would go to the USA these days !

I worked for Tek back in the day. At the time, it was the largest private employer in Oregon.

Have a Tek 535 brown cabinet.. rare?

Have a 565 dual beam with 3A6 (nuvistor input) and 3A72 , 2 time base . It's 2 in 1 Greetings from Brazil

GVG 100, 110 and 300. Thermal crayon printers! Thank you!

Great museum of great engineering & workmanship. What saddens me is that a lot of this is a thing of the past, where a lot of people, even in the US, are using oscilloscopes built outside the US.😢

Very cool video! 😎 I'm a big Tek fan myself. My main scope is still a 7603 with a 7d20 digitiser. I have a second 7603 with analog plugins too.

I still use Tektronix today; have a 7834 on the bench and one for backup. Also have a 7603 and lots of plugins. The design and layout are shear beauty.

Loved their stuff! Well, the SC502 not so much, but the rest were great!

Thanks for the tour! I'm a proud owner of aTek 453, Tek TDS320, and Tek 2230.

The summers of 1978 and 1979, along with a lot of really smart kids, I was selected for a Computer Camp at Northwest Missouri State University. It was a joint project between Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas departments of education, and we geeks had a great learning experience. My favorite part was getting to use and experiment with a Techtronics vector graphics terminal, powered by a DEC PDP-11/70 with all the bells and whistles. It inspired me to write an early portable graphics library, and after college I went on to work in HP high-performance graphics workstations. Of course today your smartphone has more capability, but it was all exciting.

I'm afraid my test-bench already looks far too much like the Tek Museum, and I used to work at HP.

Yes I still have one of their scopes in my work shop.

Boy, that takes me back. Those were wonderful scopes. I still have a 2236 that works perfectly (I think) and I'd like to find it a loving home before I die.

Also also, those wax printers are soooooo cool. The prints are so vibrant and smell like crayons!

Not exactly related, but have you been to Surplus Gizmos?? Highly recommended for tinkerers

I worked on that campus and didn't know they had a museum. Pretty cool, thanks!

Tek used to have a place where you could purchase scrap parts, assemblies and full scopes.

I have 543a Tektronix scope that I have has for about 35 years. It did not work when I got it and It was just a fuse had blown. after I replace the fuse I am still using it and works great. The thing is, after watching all these video's about Tektronix's equipment I have never seen that scope in the video's. Is it rare or nobody likes them. I know it is a 30 meg scope but still it works for what I need it for.

I sometimes think about how the oscilloscope industry has changed. For many years the magic ingredient was the CRT, 12:19 12:19 which required incredible design and development. With the advent of high speed A/D converters, CRTs are no longer necessary for most applications. The signal in question can be digitized and stored, printed, and further processed. 12:19

thank you i dont remember the last time i said wow so many times one word tektronix says it all i even had a high current scope probe tip that i used for a roach clip and of course used the face cover of a 465 to clean the weed (back when there were seeds)

Thanks interesting. KE7MAI

thanks for the vid, I have a working 310A scope.. vintage 1959, and the original service/user manual. I love looking at it and was pleased to see one briefly covered in your tour. The museum piece looks cleaner than mine, so now I'm going to have to detail mine a bit. Tom S. Ocala Fla.

I picked up a vintage portable like in this video for $1 at a yard sale.

Very good 👍

6:50 The 2467 scope has a microchannel electron multiplier faceplate CRT. You can see single shot traces at 1ns/div. I had one when I worked at HP Labs and bought one on eBay for $400 after I retired. Truly a wonderful analog oscilloscope. But beware - the configuration is stored in a battery backed SRAM module, so when the battery dies after a few years, goodbye configuration (calibration?).

Thanks for the tour! 73, Dave, KEØOG

very interesting. regards from germany

GVG MPD/SPD 89-93. Nevada County Multimedia has a GVG museum. Whispering Pines off Brunswick.

I have installed lots of Grass Valley Group equipment in TV stations and post production houses. Thanks for sharing your videos.

Excellent tour, thank you.

Thank you so much for sharing with us! I have a tek scope on my bench now.

Boy!! Did this bring back memories. Back in the 60s/70s I built computers. Used these scopes to troubled the components. Could not have done my job if we did not have a Techtronic’s scope with 2 channels and a trigger. Thanks for the tour!!

I was one of the thousands who worked there. I worked in the Microprocessor Development Group from 1977 to 1982 first in the test group for 6 months then the development group as a software engineer. We moved to Walker Road in 1978 or 1979 when the facility was opened. We were in the same business unit as the o'scope development team so we were on the north side of the building and they were on the south side. Manufacturing was right below us. Our cubicles had a complete set of tools in the toolbox, a logic analyzer, computer terminal, and a scope. What brought me to Tektronix was due to my experience with the 545 while in the Navy as a sonar technician working on the sonar systems and the digital fire control systems. When HP came out with their much smaller scope I wanted one too so I had my guys try to destroy the 545 including dunking it in the salt water. They sent it to the repair shop which was aboard the repair ship and lo and behold it came back running like new. So I was pretty much stuck with the behemoth 545 until the ship was decommissioned and the end of my enlistment. After finishing college I went to work at Boeing in Seattle as a software engineer and when the project was finished I decided to go south ... in this case Beaverton. It was the best experience that a young engineer could ask for. Tektronix provided a lot of educational opportunities including allowing us to take classes remotely at OSU at different hours of the day. The experience I gained from Tektronix carried me throughout my career and I have Tektronix to thank for that. I also kept some of the stocks I bought that is still increasing in value.

I still have the TN22

Nice! I live about an hour south in Salem. I have several pieces of Tek gear and proud to do so.

Beaver town !

Thank for this tour ,it bring me happy memory using Tek brand scope. TDS3014 is one I use during my time in Halliburton which is an improvement from Philips CombiScope (mixed ANA and DIG). TDS3014 stand out due to better memory and easy to control as well as FFT feature.

I have some 561 and 564 scopes from the era when Tek was transitioning from tubes to transistors, they work fine, and i have plenty of spares to maintain them. I like them better than digital scopes for a number of reasons.