At 03:40 PM 8/6/2001 -0600, you wrote:
I always wondered what happened to Telequipment.
That's what happened Doug. Tek bought Telequipment in late 1966 in order to capture some market share in the "low end" scope market - a market where Tek had no presence at that time. Telequipment made a decent quality no-frills scope at an affordable price. Their scopes certainly weren't up to the standards of the Tek line but they were a head-and-shoulders above the typical American service grade scopes (Hickok, Stark, Precision, Heathkit, etc). The Telequipment name carried on until some time in the early 70's until the name was dropped and the Tek name was put on the instruments. Telequipment instruments with the Tektronix name had model numbers that began with "T". Eventually, the whole product line was dropped and that was the end of Telequipment. Of all the good things Tek did, buying Telequipment was not one of them. In a small way, the scope market would have been better off if Telequipment had just been left alone.
Phil
I used a little Dual Trace Dual
Timebase Telequipment scope in college ~1975. It was a great scope. Stable, easy
to setup, and the dual/delayed timebase was was magic. After that one, I wouldn't
even consider it a scope without a dual/delayed timebase.
I don't even remember the model. Does anyone have a picture of a T900 so I could
see if that is the one I used?
Doug hale
"Phil (VA3UX)" wrote:
At 01:20 PM 8/6/2001 -0700, you wrote:
I find Don's story fascinating.
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.
That's what I thought too. That was an informative post.
I
believe that T900 were products acquired when Tektronix bought (British ?)
It was "Telequipment" from the UK
Tecelec; anyone, please, correct me if I am wrong on Tektronix/Tecelec
transaction. I have seen same housing and controls with both, Tecelec and
Sales guy complained how Air Force bought scopes from Kikutsi,
because of low price, while Kikutsi
Kikisui ??
Phil
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
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