Tektronix Cartoons
Over the years, Tektronix manuals, other publications, and even PCB layouts have featured small cartoons, such as:
Manuals
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067-0712-00 Slope Select Skier
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Type 67 Santa's Sleigh
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130 "Bistable multivibrator" by Alan Hampel
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184 Disabled Man
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184 Slow Sign (at delay line)
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R293 Max Width
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454 wizard
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454 wizard (version with component number)
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502 Mountain Climber
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524AD Blonde Amplitude
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527 Rocket
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535A Race Car
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549 Race Car
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536 Filter Check
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551 Top Gun
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564 Washer Woman (cleaning up the excess from some over-enthusiastic flood guns)
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Cyclist in 585 horizontal amplifier schematic
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624 Sweep Out
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624 High Voltage rat and cat
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624 The End
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Octopus in 661 interconnecting sockets schematic
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650 External Sync (sink)
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650 Phase Correction
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650 Back porch generator
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1401A Log Amp
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2942 (Not) RIP
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2942 External Sync (sink)
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656 External Sync (sink)
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4051 Interfacing
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4051 GPIB manual (070-2270-00)
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7854 PUP
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7904 Roadrunner
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7A24 Signal Out
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7A26 Sharp Shooter
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7A42 Bus
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7A42 Chirp
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7A42 External Clock
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7B80 Scope Doctor
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According to Bob Beville, Garve Beckham did the 7D11 cartoon, a snail sitting on the bits 01011, signifying ‘delay’ and ‘eleven’.
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7D12 Scale Factor Disable
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7D12 M3 "Least Significant Digit Blanking"
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7V11 PCB cartoon
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P80 Anteater
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P6202 Toddler
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P6451 Cautious man
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521 PAL vectorscope Pilot Light
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WP1200 pulse parameter analysis software cover cartoon (1974)
Service Scope
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Filter cleaning (ServiceScope No. 1, October 1959)
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Scope photography (ServiceScope No. 3, August 1960)
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Scope photography (ServiceScope No. 21, August 1963)
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Thief from the "Missing Instruments" section in many 1960s ServiceScope issues
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Spectrum Analyzers (ServiceScope No. 31, April 1965)
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Spectrum Analyzers (ServiceScope No. 31, April 1965)
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Spectrum Analyzers (ServiceScope No. 31, April 1965)
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Spectrum Analyzers (ServiceScope No. 31, April 1965)
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Spectrum Analyzers (ServiceScope No. 31, April 1965)
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Spectrum Analyzers (ServiceScope No. 31, April 1965)
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Spectrum Analyzers (ServiceScope No. 31, April 1965)
Other
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New part number system, 1965 letter to customers
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"Before operating, read your instruction manual" tag
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Sony/Tektronix "Primitive Man"