Tektronix Cartoons

Over the years, Tektronix manuals, other publications, and even PCB layouts have featured small cartoons, such as:

Manuals

067-0712-00 Slope Select Skier
Type 67 Santa's Sleigh
130 "Bistable multivibrator" by Alan Hampel
184 Disabled Man
184 Slow Sign (at delay line)
R293 Max Width
454 wizard
454 wizard (version with component number)
502 Mountain Climber
524AD Blonde Amplitude
527 Rocket
535A Race Car
549 Race Car
536 Filter Check
551 Top Gun
564 Washer Woman (cleaning up the excess from some over-enthusiastic flood guns)
Cyclist in 585 horizontal amplifier schematic
624 Sweep Out
624 High Voltage rat and cat
624 The End
Octopus in 661 interconnecting sockets schematic
650 External Sync (sink)
650 Phase Correction
650 Back porch generator
1401A Log Amp
2942 (Not) RIP
2942 External Sync (sink)
656 External Sync (sink)
4051 Interfacing
4051 GPIB manual (070-2270-00)
7854 PUP
7904 Roadrunner
7A24 Signal Out
7A26 Sharp Shooter
7A42 Bus
7A42 Chirp
7A42 External Clock
7B80 Scope Doctor
According to Bob Beville, Garve Beckham did the 7D11 cartoon, a snail sitting on the bits 01011, signifying ‘delay’ and ‘eleven’.
7D12 Scale Factor Disable
7D12 M3 "Least Significant Digit Blanking"
7D12/M2 "Master Sampler in Operation"
7V11 PCB cartoon
P80 Anteater
P6202 Toddler
P6451 Cautious man
521 PAL vectorscope Pilot Light
WP1200 pulse parameter analysis software cover cartoon (1974)