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 The two identical amplifier circuit boards, one mounted on each side of the center board, are cleverly flipped so both face outward from the center board. This is accomplished by having one near the top rail and the other near the bottom rail. There are two pairs of output sockets, only one of which is used per channel.
-Tom Rousseau designed a new dual trace plugin with discrete components on a single circuit board.  One channel was above the other. This was all done on a single circuit board, had only 80 MHz bandwidth but was much less expensive to manufacture. He did this on his own, not at management's request.  Management liked it and it became the [[7A18]].  Later Tom had the advantage of a 3 GHz IC process (SHF2).  He used the [[M84]] (155-0078-xx), already in production for the 485, and it had circuitry similar to the 7A18.  This was the 200 MHz [[7A26]].  It became the best selling Tektronix plugin of all time.  Tektronix literally gold plated a 7A26 and gave it to Tom in recognition.
+Tom Rousseau designed a new dual trace plugin with discrete components on a single circuit board.  One channel was above the other. This was all done on a single circuit board, had only 80 MHz bandwidth but was much less expensive to manufacture. He did this on his own, not at management's request.  Management liked it and it became the [[7A18]].  Later Tom had the advantage of a 3 GHz IC process (SHF2).  He used the [[M84]] (155-0078-xx), already in production for the [[485]], and it had circuitry similar to the 7A18.  This was the 200 MHz [[7A26]].  It became the best selling Tektronix plugin of all time.  Tektronix literally gold plated a 7A26 and gave it to Tom in recognition.
 See https://vintagetek.org/100000-7a26-plug-in/