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desired sensitivity. This also has the effect of attenuating the kick-out | desired sensitivity. This also has the effect of attenuating the kick-out | ||
pulse seen by the device under test. | pulse seen by the device under test. | ||
According to Stefan Graef (http://www.messmuseum.de/tek661.htm), | |||
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The engineer behind the N was Norm Winningstad. He worked at Hughes Aircraft Electronics Division and was offered a job at hp's oscilloscope division to join their Sampling Scope team. After getting informed about the work he went to Tektronix developing the N (according to: "A narrative history of Hewlett-Packard from 1939-1990" by John Minck) | |||
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For calibration of the timebase of the Type N, the [[013-028|013-028 Timing Standard]] was produced. | For calibration of the timebase of the Type N, the [[013-028|013-028 Timing Standard]] was produced. | ||