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Hi all,

I was talking to a friend yesterday, who is originally from Vietnam.

He recounted the story of how he was drafted to work for the communists in
some research project or other in the 60's.

Among the equipment he was given to work with was a russian copy of a Tek
5-series scope. He said it had the Tek "style" and the layout was the same,
only the colours were a little different and the labels were all in russian.
Also, he remembered the knobs were larger and more roughly-made than a Tek.

Anyone else heard of this?

Regards,
Michael

I have seen something similar in early 70s. That was in a lab of a
reasonably fancy institute, but that lab did not rate real Tektronix, they
just had a copy. I was there to install a printer controller and line
printer and had my own scope; my scope was a portable Tek, but for life of
me I do not remember which one. I am sure it was not 422, because I had
trouble with that one before and would not take it to an important job;
then, it must have been 453. Anyways, after few days of work there, when I
walked into computer room there was that scope on a cart, both painted in a
bleached Tek blue. Weird thing was that scope just set there, no probes
attached, as if it was brought in for show. There was an outside chance that
someone worked on computer after hours or during night, but there was no
need for any of that, they were customer, all they wanted to know they just
had to ask, so the whole thing was puzzling. Besides, Russians were not
famous for working during business, let alone after hours. It looked to me
that a reaction was expected from me and I was not to disappoint them. I
walked over to the scope, looked it over, said that color was like bleached
Tektronix, red knobs were like ones on Tektronix, but dull colored and then
I pointed to blank slug where Tektronix would have the serial number and
said what was purpose of it. One of them, who seemed to have been in charge
of blushing, when embarrassment called for it, did his duty, turned to beet
color and haltingly said something to effect how all smart heads think the
same way and that is where similarity came from. That was first and last
time that I saw that scope. It is 30 years from that time and memory is
somewhat hazy, but I think scope disappeared while I was at lunch. In all
this time, I do not think that I remembered that scope more than three or
four times.

Regards
Miroslav Pokorni