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'''Bill DeVey''' | '''Bill DeVey''' (June 18, 1940 - June 2, 2020) was an electrical engineer. | ||
He was with Tektronix from 1964 to 1987. | |||
Bill was born on June 18, 1940, in Chicago, 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. | |||
Bill was a circuit designer. | |||
In his early days, he worked in [[Building 81]]. | |||
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. | |||
He is most famous for another Differential Comparator, the popular [[7A13]] plugin introduced in August 1969 along with other 7000 series plugins and mainframes. | |||
In September 1969, Bill worked for [[Phil Crosby]] in “Conventional Instruments” on the third floor of [[Building 50]]. | |||
This was followed by his design of the [[7B52]] dual time base in August 1971 and the [[7B92]] with [[Les Larson]] introduced in 1972. | |||
In December 1973, Bill worked in IDD Engineering in [[Building 86]], which was the location of IDD (Information Display Di[vision) engineering | |||
before the Wilsonville campus was finished. | |||
Bill married Nancy Walter on September 6, 1975, in Clatsop, Oregon. | |||
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. | |||
He worked for other electronics companies in the area after leaving Tek, including Credence Corporation and Sequent Computer Systems (later bought by IBM). | |||
He joined Tektronix in about July of 1963. | |||
==Tektronix products== | ==Tektronix products== | ||
* Designed [[155-0049-00]] | * Designed [[155-0049-00]] | ||
* Designed [[7A13]] | * Designed [[7A13]] |