On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 06:34 am, Adrian wrote:
From my use of google at least, information on Telequipment Ltd and its
products prior to the product facelift and subsequent takeover seems scarce,
most of the very little I know has been thanks to the VintageTek museum page
and a link to the spring '67 article in TekTalk about the acquisition. Bob
Haas and Dave Brown at VintageTek have been really helpful and burrowed around
their archives but not found anything. I was wondering if anyone in this group
may know, or could point me at, people who could help fill in the gap. Apart
from anything else Telequipment is a bit of UK industrial history that should
not be lost?
That's an interesting little scope. I have a soft spot for the early Telequipment scopes, since they seemed to be all that was affordable on the secondhand market for schoolboys like me in the 1980s. My first scope was a Telequipment D31. It taught me a lot, not least how to spot a leaky paper capacitor! It was a proper dual-beam scope (two sets of Y plates with common X deflection) and I remember being a bit disappointed when my first really grown-up scope (a Tek 535A, which I'm still using) had these 'chop' and 'alt' modes. Why couldn't it just display both traces at once? How backward! The D31 is still sitting in my Dad's shed.
Your scope does look like an S31 though with no model number. Have you mentioned it on the UK Vintage Radio forum ()? There are people there who know most everything there is to know about vintage UK test equipment.
Chris
