"Dave Plowman" wrote in message


In article ,
Andy Evans wrote:
Well, he may stick his neck out a bit but he's a good designer with a
long industry pedigree - several years with Tektronix.
Under-educated, no. Opinionated - well, compared to folks on this
ng., I'd call him excessively polite!

Interesting that Tek moved into the use of semiconductors as soon as
they could...

Early adopters, even. When I worked for IBM in the late 60's our workhorse
was the 453 'scope which had exactly three tubes, one of which was the CRT.
There were literally dozens of transistors in it. Later Tek models quickly
reduced that to just the CRT.