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.

Love the music. It’s a hep choice for an industrial film.

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. :)

Great video. Extremely well made and excellent musical score.

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!!

This is such a neat film! I hope it gets reencoded at a higher bit-rate and reposted before the film is lost.

Came for the technology, stayed for the groovy Jazz music.

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.

Nice music!

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 ...

This makes me understand the price of a Tektronix scope.

I love my vintage Tektronix oscilloscopes! I have a 310A, 535, 547, 465, 465B, 2336, 2465A, 2465B, and a few others. Fantastic film!

Nice documentary and the music matches perfectly with it. :) Also I like old Tektronix osciloscopes.

Tektronix took the art and science of CRT manufacture to heights unmatched by any other CRT manufacturer.

We learn new things every day, I had no idea that they used ceramics this way! Amazing.

Groovy music man......

Quality stuff, man. Thanks for posting!

I wonder how many radar CRTs they made with this process. Thomas Electronics, who acquired Tektronix's CRT business, still makes ceramic CRTs.

My God what a process. No wonder the scopes cost a fortune.

Thank you sharing this video, really informative

One Rigol employee disliked this video.

Amazing.

What a jewel of a video!

Nice.. how far the technology went..amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Awesomeness! Tek rocks on!

wow, this was mindblowing

Shiver! Dumping ceramic powder bags without even dust mask! Can you say silicosis?

I love the extensive use of PPE, lots of fine dust, silicosis anyone? Still have Tektronix and Telequipment scopes.

Back when things were made to last.

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.

nothing like using a foot and a half long screwdriver to tighten a clamp!

Thanks for this!

I just love my techtronic oscilloscope and thanks for sharing I was enlightened

Committed to excellence

Very interesting video, music was a bit dodgy think the band was on lsd. Thanks for posting.

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.

_gilding the lily_

Finest instruments ever made. No toyota 5s required.

Nice flute! Did you play that Bob?

Of course EMI claimed it...

OH&S nil. No way I would be breathing that stuff in. No masks/ eye / face protection back in those days?

I guess their staff turnover was big enough that they needed this type of video to train them quickly

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?

Why don't they just use a TFT or IPS panel, duh. edit 100% of you don't understand sarcasm

Trinitron: cute

I spy a 564!

Instead of a tektronix I've got a hantek

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.

Filmed through a jar of marshmallow creme.

This is when oscilloscopes were made for men not the Chinese handbags they sell nowadays

I could be wrong, is this the voice of Leonard Nimoy?

This film was shot in 8mm? It's unworthy of Tektronix...

23:18 finger condoms? why not use gloves?

It's so low quality!

We were wonderful then. No deep state fones, and no alexas, or robots.

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.

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