Tektronix
Explore Tektronix vintage audio equipment in the Vintage Technology Archive.
Models
Audio Analyzer
- AA-501 — Tektronix AA-501 distortion analyzer: a TM 500 plug-in with 10 Hz–100 kHz range and <0.0025% residual, paired with the SG 505 oscillator.
Power Supply
- TM-500 — The Tektronix TM-500 is one of those instrument systems that turns up constantly in studio and lab photographs of the 1970s.
Video
- VM-700 — Tektronix VM-700: automatic video measurement system, seen in 1994 CATV lab tests; no other documentation known. Obscure vintage test instrument.
Other Models
- 1450-1 — Tektronix 1450-1 Transparent TV demodulator — synchronous detection, SAW IF, BTSC audio upgrade to $14,900. A broadcast-bench benchmark.
- AA-5001 — Tektronix AA-5001 (1983) programmable distortion analyzer — .0032% residual, $3,300 in 1984, half of an automated audio test system that needed the SG-5010 to work.
- PG-506 — Tektronix PG-506: 1MHz calibration generator plug-in for the TM500 system. Amplitude calibrator and square wave pulse generator, circa 1974.
- SG-503 (1974) — Tektronix SG-503 (1974) — a TM 500 plug-in leveled sine-wave generator, 250 kHz to 250 MHz, with a built-in autoranging LED frequency counter.