Yes Jim, I was in my office back in the 70s when their sales rep showed up. Of course he tried to imply I was disloyal for not buying Raytheon scopes. We both know there was no scope better, even HP scopes. I was spoiled and would not have wanted to see anything in our shop but 465s. Maybe you could ask around talking to old timers to see if they remember this. My guess is that this branch of Raytheon could not have lasted more than a few months. Who in their right mind would buy one? Clearly it was a terrible decision. Raytheon has the money to handle this kind of failure.
O.T. BTW, I hope your work environment is as good as I had. My boss let me do whatever I wanted as long as our office made money. I did get some flack when I sold complete new electronics to 9 Iranian destroyers after their revolution. Made a great month for me. But my boss said if we were caught the publicity would cost more money than we made that month. Complete electronics meant surface and air search radar, sonar, fathometers, IFF, and radios. They were updating old US destroyers they had purchased. I realized at the time there might be a problem, but wisely got the money up front in cash. Scared me to death walking to my car on the pier with suitcases full of money. It was not until 1980 that Manchester noticed the large sale and purchaser. We regularly serviced Soviet ships for cash up front. Never any credit offered. The design of their radars was suspiciously very like our own Raytheon radars and so they came to us for service. We had the parts and technicians. Seemed like most of the officers spoke English. It was a wonderful time in my life fixing so many different things and meeting people from all over the planet. Now down to repairing transceivers and stereos, sigh.........
