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 {{Person
-|Names=Winthrop A. "Wink" Gross
+|Names=Winthrop Alfred "Wink" Gross
-|Birth date=
+|Birth date=April 29, 1947
-|Birth place=
+|Birth place=Exeter, New Hampshire, United States
 |Death date=
 |Death place=
-|Countries=
+|Countries=USA
-|Affiliations=Harvard; Tektronix; MIT;Maxim Integrated Products
+|Affiliations=Harvard; Tektronix; MIT;Maxim
 |Wikidata id=
 }} is a retired Tektronix engineer.
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 Gross and [[John Addis]] collaborated closely on both the 485 and 7104.
-Wink went to the Portable Instrument Division in 1979 and became vertical system engineer for the 2465.
+Wink went to the Portable Instrument Division in 1979 and became vertical system engineer for the [[2465]], for which he designed the main vertical amplifier, the channel switch, and the auxiliary input preamp.
-He designed the [[2465]] main vertical amplifier, the channel switch, and the auxiliary input preamp.
-[[Marv LaVoie]] designed the 2465 attenuator.
-[[Ken Schlotzhauer]] (who died in China in an auto accident May 30, 1995) designed the 2465 trigger IC and
+Wink went to the IC department in 1982 as Analog IC Design Manager, eventually becoming Engineering Manager for the Microelectronics Group.  In 1994, when Tektronix sold its IC facility to [[Maxim|Maxim Integrated Products]], Wink went to Maxim as Director of High Frequency IC Design.  He retired in 1999.
-[[Mike Metcalf]] (who died of Hodgkin's Lymphoma complications April 1, 1989) designed the 2465 Z axis IC,
-both under the direction of [[Art Metz]].
-Art had horizontal system responsibility and designed the non-IC part of the horizontal as well.
-Wink went to the IC department in 1982 as Analog IC Design Manager,
+==Links==
-eventually becoming Engineering Manager for the Microelectronics Group.
+* John Addis, ''Good Engineering and Fast Vertical Amplifiers'', in Jim Williams (Ed.), ''Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science and Personalities'' (1991),  p.114  (Ref 1)
-In 1994 when Tektronix sold its IC facility to Maxim Integrated Products,
+* [http://www.hevanet.com/winkg/mywebpage.html Wink Gross' web page]
-Wink went with Maxim as Director of High Frequency IC Design.
-He retired in 1999.
 ==Tek products==
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 * with [[John Addis]], co-designed the hybrid amplifiers for the [[7104]] (Ref 1)
 * [[2465]]
+{{Designer|Wink Gross}}
-==Links==
+{{Patents|Wink Gross}}
-* John Addis, ''Good Engineering and Fast Vertical Amplifiers'', in Jim Williams (Ed.), ''Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science and Personalities'' (1991),  p.114  (Ref 1)
-==Patents==
-==Links==
-* [http://www.hevanet.com/winkg/mywebpage.html Wink Gross' web page]
 [[Category:Tektronix people]]