Tektronix equipment has been used in many movies and shows
(vintagetek.org)56 points by stmw 6 days ago
56 points by stmw 6 days ago
And Tektronix equipment is absolute delight to work on. And I defy anyone to find better handbooks and maintenance manuals anywhere, they're absolutely marvelous. They should be held up as the quintessential examples.
I look at the shit tech manuals around these days (that's if they exixt at all) and can't help but feel how much tech companies have screwed users in recent decades.
Tbf cost has gone down dramatically for more functionality and features
It does not display the text; it just displays a mess. In my experience it sometimes does this when the file is compressed but the server does not tell you that it is compressed (I have also had the other way around happen; the server telling you that it is compressed even though it is not compressed).
It's very "movie-friendly."
HP stuff is too beige/bland. Tektronix stuff is more colorful.
Some of the Japanese brands were even more colorful, but we always used either Tektronix, or HP, where I worked (I used to write GPIB controller programs for them).
Some of the Tektronix CRT scopes had unique phosphor colors or compositions, so it adds a lot of extra cinematic flare. https://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/Phosphor
There are just two photos in the entire gallery of 150+ that show modern scopes. The rest is vintage CRT equipment, going back to black-and-white films.
From same museum, in case people are interested in a 4115 brochure https://vintagetek.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/4115B-broc...
As an Eventide owner, this is a personal favourite of mine:
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F8...
If you have the opportunity, I would strongly recommend visiting the vintageTEK Museum whose site this is on (it's just outside Portland) sometime. Many of the folks working there are retired from Tektronix themselves and the amount of (working!) equipment they have is astounding.