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{{Person | |||
|Names=William J DeVey | |||
|Birth date=June 18, 1940 | |||
|Birth place=Chicago, IL | |||
|Death date=June 2, 2020 | |||
|Death place= | |||
|Countries=USA | |||
|Affiliations=University of Illinois;University of Portland;Tektronix;Credence;Sequent | |||
|Wikidata id= | |||
}} was an electrical engineer who was with Tektronix from 1963/1964 to 1987. | |||
He was married to Helen Eike in Stavenger, La Salle County, Illinois. | He was married to Helen Eike in Stavenger, La Salle County, Illinois. | ||
He obtained a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and later an MBA from the University of Portland. | He obtained a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and later an MBA from the University of Portland. | ||
Bill married Nancy Walter on September 6, 1975, in Clatsop, Oregon. | Bill married Nancy Walter on September 6, 1975, in Clatsop, Oregon. | ||
In | Bill was a circuit designer. In his early days, he worked in [[Building 81]]. | ||
In September 1969, Bill worked for [[Phil Crosby]] in “Conventional Instruments” on the third floor of [[Building 50]]. | |||
In December 1973, Bill worked in IDD Engineering in [[Building 86]], which was the location of IDD (Information Display Division) engineering before the Wilsonville campus was finished. | |||
In November 1979, Bill was working in IDD (Information Display Division) in [[Building 63]]. | In May of 1978, Bill was in IDO (Information Display Operations?) in [[Building 60]]. In November 1979, Bill was working in IDD (Information Display Division) in [[Building 63]]. | ||
Bill is not listed in the March 1986 Communications Directory. | Bill is not listed in the March 1986 Communications Directory. | ||
He worked for other electronics companies in the area after leaving Tek, including Credence Corporation and Sequent Computer Systems (later bought by IBM). | He worked for other electronics companies in the area after leaving Tek, including Credence Corporation and Sequent Computer Systems (later bought by IBM). | ||
==Tektronix products== | ==Tektronix products== | ||
* | * His first instrument was the [[3A7]] which he did under the tutelage of [[John Horn]] in April 1966. | ||
* | * Shortly afterward he designed the [[1A5]], a Differential Comparator for the 540 series Tektronix mainframes, introduced in January 1967. | ||
* | * Then he designed the [[81A]], an adaptor for 540 series plugins to work in 580 series mainframes. | ||
* Project | * He is most famous for another Differential Comparator, the popular [[7A13]] plugin introduced in August 1969 along with other 7000 series plugins and mainframes. | ||
* This was followed by his design of the [[7B52]] dual time base in August 1971 and the [[7B92]] with [[Les Larson]] introduced in 1972. | |||
* He designed the [[155-0049-00]] sweep control chip | |||
* He worked on the [[7904]] according to http://www.rdmag.com/award-winners/1971/01/model-7904-oscilloscope | |||
* Bill was the Project Engineer for [[7623]] and [[7613]] according to ''Three kinds of Storage'', in [[Media:Tekscope 1972 V4 N4 Jul 1972.pdf | Tekscope, July 1972]] or [http://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/tektronix_three_kinds_of_storage.html @ radiomuseum.org] | |||
{{Designer|Bill DeVey}} | |||
{{Patents|Bill DeVey}} | |||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
* https://www.linkedin.com/pub/bill-devey/11/4a7/201 | * https://www.linkedin.com/pub/bill-devey/11/4a7/201 | ||
[[Category:Tektronix people]] | [[Category:Tektronix people]] |