A Visit to the VintageTek Museum 

Seeing all this stuff together really makes you appreciate how many tens of thousands of man-hours have been spent designing it.

I'm about to buy my first scope. This tour video is awesome because I used to work down the road from Tektronix and William Walker was a huge influence on me because he was one of my childhood church benefactors. If more people realized just what these scopes can do they would never throw anything out but now we live in a society where waste is common, and nobody wants to learn how the sausage is made.

one of the best videos in the vintage electronics corner of youtube

Давным давно, в молодости, примерно 1980 год, имел возможность пользоваться замечательным советским осциллографом С1-64 (C1-64A), являющимся копией осциллографа Tektronix TYPE 453 (показан на 4:19). С1-64 был мне "другом" почти 17 лет. A long time ago, in my youth, around 1980, I had the opportunity to use the wonderful Soviet oscilloscope C1-64 (C1-64A), which is a copy of the Tektronix TYPE 453 oscilloscope (shown at 4:19). C1-64 was my "friend" for almost 17 years.

thank you for making this, never knew i was so close to such an institution

I repair vintage stereo equipment in my retirement my 465 scopes that have had the tantalum caps replaced work and look like new. A friend gave me a 2245 that works great too. My 570 and 575 curve tracers were rebuilt by Stewart Smith here in Syracuse. He is 91 and his father started Stewart Smith Electronics when he was a young boy. I don't think that there is anyone alive that known more about vacuum tube electronics . I am 69 and have been going to his store for 50 years and have learned more from him than I did in school. I call it silicon with a sermon. My dad's 310a (he was a HIPAR radar engineer) has a place on my bench too.

I spent 20 years from the end of the 1970’s till the end of the 1990’s working on the bench for Tek in the Chicago field office. Most of my time spent 2nd shift repairing/calibrating laboratory oscilloscopes and logic products. It was a wonderful company to work for and the equipment was unrivaled , with the bonus of traveling to Beaverton for 2 or 3 weeks every year for training. If I ever make it to the Pacific Northwest again, I will definitely stop by to relive my younger years!

What an awesome museum! Can u imagine a modern company explaining to shareholders how they want to build a museum, they would probably be arrested.

I had a rack-mount Tektronix. It was big, heavy, and loud. I loved it. Hopefully, the new owner is putting it to good use. It may have been in an AWACS before.

Thank's for video.

This is great, thank you. In high school my dad got a used 531 that let me learn electronics, then later a 545. As an intern with RCA broadcast I used a 547, which was really a pinnacle of scopes. Upon full time employment with RCA Labs in 1980 I was able to order a 7904 for my use. It had much higher performance than the 547, but it didn't have the crisp display of the 547. I believe it was Tek that disrupted the scope market by making scopes calibrated. Prior to Tek, scopes would only show you the general waveform but could not be used for measurement. Tek said, let's calibrate this thing! And everyone else was playing catch up.

Excellent video, much more than a tribute. Tektronix always on the road.👍👍🥹🇺🇲

Having grown up in Beaverton and having a love for electronics, I found my self often (every few weeks) at the Tek "Country Store" - not sure if it is still around but I still have parts and tools from it - 50 years later. Still have a Tek scope that I use on a regular basis from maybe 30 years ago. Nice video, thanks!

I own some Tek old gear, namely an oscilloscope 465, and a time mark generator 2905. Every time I look at this old gear I remain amazed for the fine engineering and the craftmanship put in them!!!

This is just beautiful.Thank you....

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What an interesting video,Thanks so much for taking your time to make it//

Very interesting video, brought back many memories!

I'll have to visit that museum on my next trip to Portland. I own several Tektronix scopes - 7904, 475, 5440, and 2 491 spectrum analyzers. I have always considered Tektronix equipment to be first rate. But I am happy I didn't have to lug a 465 through airports for very long.

Very interesting video. I hope to visit the museum in the future.

Amazing and wonderful video.

Excellent

Oh my gosh I would give anything to have one of those 1960s 454 scopes..... There's no way you could possibly spare one is there ? I would literally keep it for life treat it like my baby and it would have a happy home, I've been able to save up a couple times to get some scopes but they're in horrible condition.

TEKTRONICS...THIS NAME IS FAMOUS FOR TEST EQUIPMENTS WITH ACCURCY AND LONGEVITY AND RUGGED CONSTRUCTION .I have used Techtronics CROs and Curve tracers in our lab.

2:07 that is asking for trouble. One small accident or an earth quake and those CRTs are gone.

OMG....Pure Tech Porn.....or Tek Porn:)))) my mouth was literally watering:)))