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Miroslav Pokorni
I find Don's story fascinating.
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To start with, until very recently I thought that 465M is a 465, in a funny housing, but still 465. I never new that 465M traces lineage to T900. I believe that T900 were products acquired when Tektronix bought (British ?) Tecelec; anyone, please, correct me if I am wrong on Tektronix/Tecelec transaction. I have seen same housing and controls with both, Tecelec and Tektronix names on it. I never new that T900 were built in Beavertron, I thought that all of them came out of UK plant. With my newly acquired insight into 465M, I find story told to me by local former Tektronix sale guy a bit funny (local: Orange County, Ca, former: circa 1982). Sales guy complained how Air Force bought scopes from Kikutsi, because of low price, while Kikutsi could not deliver a scope to meet performance specification. I wander how much of performance would have been met by 465M. Regards Miroslav Pokorni -----Original Message-----
From: donlcramer@... [mailto:donlcramer@...] Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 2:49 PM To: TekScopes@... Subject: Re: [TekScopes] Re: 465M Flaky vertical height. Fascinating! BTW, what was the reason for creating the 465M for the government vs selling the 465? Was it a cost issue? Or some special features? Was the 455 an outgrowth of the 465M or was it the other way around? I worked in Digital Service Instruments as a production tech in the late 70s, which was a new group in Portables which began with the 851 Digital Tester. This was a product designed originally for Burroughs for their first line techs as a scope replacement. The instrument was principally a clever integration of DMM and counter/timer functions and the idea was that a tech could follow a diagnostic tree and compare readings to arrive at the fault, without the need to be familiar with how a scope worked. Anyway, we were next to the T900 line and if DSI production was a bit slow, I would get to work on T900 product. While not as nice as the "real" portables, the top line T935 wasn't a bad instrument (2x35MHz) as far as functionality was concerned. About once a month our group got to either take a tour of another area, or had a guest in, as was common practice back then in order to get more familiar with other parts of Tek. One time it was the the marketing product manager for T900. As you know, the T900 line styling was a little odd, and was derided for looking like an old Kerby cannister vacuum cleaner instead of like a traditional portable scope. The gentleman, whose name I've long since forgotten, was quite a character. He told us he wanted to do an ad with a photo of a field service tech holding a T900 in one hand and a vacuum cleaner hose in the other hand with the line "Tektronix is Going to Clean Up in the Low Cost Scope Business". But the idea was shot down. We had quite a laugh over that, and he was an inspiration for the T900 team who felt somewhat second rate compared to the groups working on the more expensive portables and lab scopes. My recollection is that were a great bunch of people regardless of what they worked on. Don ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: TekScopes-unsubscribe@... Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to |
