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'''Winthrop "Wink" Gross''' is a retired Tektronix engineer. | '''Winthrop "Wink" Gross''' is a retired Tektronix engineer. | ||
' | Wink (Winthrop A.) Gross started at Tektronix as a summer student from Harvard in 1968 | ||
and became a full time Tek employee upon graduation with a BA in EE in 1969. | |||
Wink worked closely with [[Carl Battjes]] for a number of years during the 454 design. | |||
Wink designed the [[485]] portable oscilloscope main vertical amplifier. | |||
He left Tek to go to MIT for their graduate Engineer degree in 1972 and 1973, | |||
returning to Tek to work on the main vertical amplifier of the [[7104]], 1GHz oscilloscope. | |||
He 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. | |||
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 | |||
[[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, | |||
eventually becoming Engineering Manager for the Microelectronics Group. | |||
In 1994 when Tektronix sold its IC facility to Maxim Integrated Products, | |||
Wink went with Maxim as Director of High Frequency IC Design. | |||
He retired in 1999. | |||
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