David DiGiacomo

Test Equipment and Electronics Information

Updated: May 2011

Mark Kahrs has some test equipment information including a page about the Tektronix 7000 series and one about the TM500 series.
Dennis Tillman has compiled lists of Tektronix 7000 series and TM500 series equipment.
Christian Weagle has compiled excellent Tektronix 5000 series and Tektronix TM500 series guides.
Shannon Hill has compiled a cross reference of Tek 7000 mainframe circuit board assembly part numbers
Tektronix has a page about the 7000 series, but unfortunately it's not very complete or accurate, and hasn't been updated since 1999.
Kurt Rosenfeld is starting a Tektronix Wiki.

Fluke online manuals
IET and GR online manuals
Keithley online manuals
Kikusui online manuals
TestMart is a great resource - they have scans of many hard to find test equipment catalogs in their Reference Library. Registration is required for access, but don't let that discourage you.

Tektronix 1959 Short Form Catalog
Arnoud van der Wel's Museum of Tektronix Oscilloscopes, now hosted by Alan Bain
Richard Heming's Tektronix museum.
Robert Corriveau's extensive Tektronix museum, plus scanned manuals for sale, etc.
Rick Bensene's page about the Tektronix model 21 and 31 calculators, in his Old Calculator Web Museum.
Julian Bunn's excellent Tektronix collection page.
David Garrido is starting a site called classicTEK.org.

Henry Hall and the General Radio Historical Society have a wonderful General Radio web site, including A History of the General Radio Company 1915-1965, by Arthur E. Thiessen.
The IET Labs web site hosts the complete run of the General Radio Experimenter magazine
John Poulton K4OZY has a GR Repository including a number of scanned manuals.
Åke Holm has an excellent HAMEG site.
The Heathkit Virtual Museum includes a test equipment page.
Richard Pestinger KC8RP has a Heathkit page with a number of scanned manuals and a parts cross reference database.
Paul Perkins has a great web site Simpson260.com which covers all types of Simpson test equipment.
Stefan Graef has a personal test equipment museum.
Jose Gavila has a growing collection and also has scanned manuals for sale.
Ralf Richard Ohmberger has good photos of the outsides and insides of his test equipment collection.
Jon Evans has an Old Test Equipment Gallery and scans of some hard to find Telequipment manuals.
Randy Jams of Tone Lizard Amplifiers has articles about VTVMs and tube testers, written from a guitar amplifier perspective, but still very interesting.