Amazing to have this pop up. Nothing I've been looking at is anywhere close to suggesting this. I used to work in the building that fired these. There were two very long kilns and I placed the greenware on the moving belt and removed the fired product. There were additional duties as well and this was in the later 60's. I still have one rectangular crt.
I use their oscilloscopes for many years, when I was employed by the top Communication company in the world at the time. I found them to be the best, oscilloscopes available. I wish I still own one today.
Afterwards they scaled this process up to make the 11-inch storage CRT for the 4010 terminal ($5000) and eventually a 26 inch storage CRT for the 4016 terminal ($12,000)! The storage tubes only lasted about 5000 screens worth, by then the screen was majorly degraded with about half the area dropping out. so each displayed graphic image cost you $1 to $2.50 each!!
Still relevant because if this precision and use of materials wasn't achieved back then, you wouldn't have any of the modern technology that you take for granted. Especially considering that these CRT's were going into some of the best test and research gear ever developed - Tektronix scopes. The present technology owes everything to these scopes made 50 years ago.
I had Thanksgiving dinner with Norm Winningstadt back in the late '70s at his luxurious .... well.. maybe not the right description... but very nicely accommodated home in the West Hills. He and his wife were extremely congenial and unpretentious. Food was scrumptious as to be expected. I used to buy pot from his son at that time and party a little bit with the West side group. Have to forgive my ramblings, this video brought back memories.
He had 2 sons and a daughter. knew the son Dick ( Richard) in high school in the late 60s! He later married a friend of mines sister. One evening in probably 1969 I brought my Bolex 8mm up to the house to make movies of gasoline burning on the family swimming pool. The fire movie was probably the idea of Dicks close friend Renae ( spelling?) Alameda, who was also at the same high school.
Well done Techtronics. Congrats for your patent. Although I can not promise, that it will be regarded as on the same level as the invention of the wheel or the chair in the next centuries.
@ungratefulmetalpansy - Hmmmm, I think I detect a sarcastic undertone in your reply. Of course we shall spell company names the way we want. At least I live in a free country. George Michael once spelled SONY as PHONY in one of his videos, because he had a dispute with the company. I thought that was great. Are you saying he shouldn't have done that?
Wouldn't OSHA have a field day!!! Wonder how many parts were dropped/hit on the corner of equipment/etc.? Every time a worker moved the parts, I was watching how close they were coming.
If you'd been alive/working age back then, you might have gotten a lower paying but safer job, if there were such. If not, well, there's a non zero chance you're around to complain because of the advances these things enabled. I seriously doubt they prevented anyone from using any PPE that A: existed and B: they wanted to use, after C: anyone knew the risks.
ungratfulmetalpansy, I noted your frustration with the idiots who couldn't spell Tektronix. You're not alone, mate. However, I suspect drink and/or drugs are a factor, judging by the incoherence of the replies. What's the excuse for the man who said loved his 'Techtronic' 'scope though? Perhaps he's blind?
I'm not even going to bother with that clip. Unlike Tektronix, who upheld the highest quality standards, your clip, shot off the screen of a crap television, is apalling.
Amazing to have this pop up. Nothing I've been looking at is anywhere close to suggesting this.
I used to work in the building that fired these. There were two very long kilns and I placed the greenware on the moving belt and removed the fired product. There were additional duties as well and this was in the later 60's. I still have one rectangular crt.
Great video. Extremely well made and excellent musical score.
I use their oscilloscopes for many years, when I was employed by the top Communication company in the world at the time. I found them to be the best, oscilloscopes available. I wish I still own one today.
Years ago I had several makes of O'Scopes in my lab.
It came down to two types of scopes. Tektronix....... and all the others. :)
Love the music. It’s a hep choice for an industrial film.
Came for the technology, stayed for the groovy Jazz music.
This is such a neat film! I hope it gets reencoded at a higher bit-rate and reposted before the film is lost.
You're right!
Afterwards they scaled this process up to make the 11-inch storage CRT for the 4010 terminal ($5000) and eventually a 26 inch storage CRT for the 4016 terminal ($12,000)! The storage tubes only lasted about 5000 screens worth, by then the screen was majorly degraded with about half the area dropping out. so each displayed graphic image cost you $1 to $2.50 each!!
Lol that would be Apple. Actually Tektronix made some of the best oscilloscopes used back in the day.
Tektronix took the art and science of CRT manufacture to heights unmatched by any other CRT manufacturer.
Yep, all the way until the TDS monochrome CRTs. It’s a shame they have such major dimming issues for an otherwise (nearly) spotless track record
We learn new things every day, I had no idea that they used ceramics this way! Amazing.
I love my vintage Tektronix oscilloscopes! I have a 310A, 535, 547, 465, 465B, 2336, 2465A, 2465B, and a few others. Fantastic film!
Leave some for the rest of us!
Love the music and the heavy EMT plate reverb... The EPA did not exist till 1970...Cant even imagine what this factory dumped in the local river ...
That is what rivers are for, you dirty hippie!
Pretty much nothing... as there was no river anywhere near the plant. I live very near the former Tek campus.
Nice documentary and the music matches perfectly with it. :) Also I like old Tektronix osciloscopes.
This makes me understand the price of a Tektronix scope.
Still relevant because if this precision and use of materials wasn't achieved back then, you wouldn't have any of the modern technology that you take for granted. Especially considering that these CRT's were going into some of the best test and research gear ever developed - Tektronix scopes. The present technology owes everything to these scopes made 50 years ago.
Great story sir. Thank u for taking us inside mfg labs. Jussojuan
I wonder how many radar CRTs they made with this process. Thomas Electronics, who acquired Tektronix's CRT business, still makes ceramic CRTs.
SSAAAYYYYYY WHAAAAT!? You're trolling me!
Quality stuff, man. Thanks for posting!
Nice music!
Nice.. how far the technology went..amazing. Thanks for sharing.
One Rigol employee disliked this video.
I had Thanksgiving dinner with Norm Winningstadt back in the late '70s at his luxurious .... well.. maybe not the right description... but very nicely accommodated home in the West Hills. He and his wife were extremely congenial and unpretentious. Food was scrumptious as to be expected.
I used to buy pot from his son at that time and party a little bit with the West side group.
Have to forgive my ramblings, this video brought back memories.
He developed an undisclosed illness that caused physical pain and led to suicide.
He had 2 sons and a daughter. knew the son Dick ( Richard) in high school in the late 60s! He later married a friend of mines sister. One evening in probably 1969 I brought my Bolex 8mm up to the house to make movies of gasoline burning on the family swimming pool. The fire movie was probably the idea of Dicks close friend Renae ( spelling?) Alameda, who was also at the same high school.
What a jewel of a video!
My God what a process. No wonder the scopes cost a fortune.
Thank you sharing this video, really informative
I love the extensive use of PPE, lots of fine dust, silicosis anyone? Still have Tektronix and Telequipment scopes.
Groovy music man......
Awesomeness! Tek rocks on!
wow, this was mindblowing
nothing like using a foot and a half long screwdriver to tighten a clamp!
Damn right!
Shiver! Dumping ceramic powder bags without even dust mask! Can you say silicosis?
Amazing.
Well done Techtronics. Congrats for your patent. Although I can not promise, that it will be regarded as on the same level as the invention of the wheel or the chair in the next centuries.
@ungratefulmetalpansy - I do not think that anyone apart from you still cares.
@ungratefulmetalpansy - Hmmmm, I think I detect a sarcastic undertone in your reply. Of course we shall spell company names the way we want. At least I live in a free country. George Michael once spelled SONY as PHONY in one of his videos, because he had a dispute with the company. I thought that was great.
Are you saying he shouldn't have done that?
@ungratefulmetalpansy - That's sad ... very sad.
However, nobody in the real world has ever heard of Tektronix.
@ungratefulmetalpansy - What is really real or at least probable? A fascinating question if you delve into quantum mechanics....
@@thekaiser4333 Learn to spell, you hack.
Back when things were made to last.
I just love my techtronic oscilloscope and thanks for sharing I was enlightened
@ungratefulmetalpansy It's right next to his Sorny TV set.
FFS get it right, you muppet.
Very interesting video, music was a bit dodgy think the band was on lsd.
Thanks for posting.
Finest instruments ever made. No toyota 5s required.
Thanks for this!
Committed to excellence
This is when oscilloscopes were made for men not the Chinese handbags they sell nowadays
I guess their staff turnover was big enough that they needed this type of video to train them quickly
OH&S nil. No way I would be breathing that stuff in. No masks/ eye / face protection back in those days?
I immediately noticed that the only PPE worn by the workers in the whole video is with the absolute purpose of protecting the parts.
Wouldn't OSHA have a field day!!!
Wonder how many parts were dropped/hit on the corner of equipment/etc.? Every time a worker moved the parts, I was watching how close they were coming.
If you'd been alive/working age back then, you might have gotten a lower paying but safer job, if there were such. If not, well, there's a non zero chance you're around to complain because of the advances these things enabled. I seriously doubt they prevented anyone from using any PPE that A: existed and B: they wanted to use, after C: anyone knew the risks.
Nice flute! Did you play that Bob?
_gilding the lily_
ungratfulmetalpansy, I noted your frustration with the idiots who couldn't spell Tektronix. You're not alone, mate. However, I suspect drink and/or drugs are a factor, judging by the incoherence of the replies. What's the excuse for the man who said loved his 'Techtronic' 'scope though? Perhaps he's blind?
Of course EMI claimed it...
Why don't they just use a TFT or IPS panel, duh.
edit 100% of you don't understand sarcasm
Trinitron: cute
IIRC, tektronix helped develop the trinitron.
This might be interesting if you could have see it through the haze. To protect my eyes I had to cut it off less than 10 seconds into the video.
I spy a 564!
Instead of a tektronix I've got a hantek
I could be wrong, is this the voice of Leonard Nimoy?
Nelson Hobbs
unmistakably. recognize that voice anywhere.
This film was shot in 8mm? It's unworthy of Tektronix...
23:18 finger condoms? why not use gloves?
Sweat.
I'm not even going to bother with that clip. Unlike Tektronix, who upheld the highest quality standards, your clip, shot off the screen of a crap television, is apalling.
They sure have just used a capture card instead.
We were wonderful then. No deep state fones, and no alexas, or robots.
It's so low quality!
absolutely aweful video quality!!! you should re-digitalize this!
Too bad, Tektronix didn’t pay its employees very well, and had very very crappy management