[Thursday] GenRad in an Ad 1972

[Michael Thompson]

A company that I worked for as a coop student in the early 1970s (Mutron)
bought General Radio's WW-II military radio equipment line when they
got out of the business. Mutron continued to support the General Radio
equipment until about 1970. While I was there they received an order for an
IF strip for a 1940s IFF radar system. The chief engineer and I went into
the attic and dug through piles of NOS General Radio parts and assemblies
and found a completely assembled IF strip. We added tubes, installed it in
a test IFF system, ran through the alignment procedure, and shipped it to
the NAVY in San Diego.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 10:17 AM Lens Email via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org>
wrote:

> I programmed GenRad in circuit test machines at my first engineering job
> at Honeywell back in 1979.
>
> Len
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 6, 2020, at 10:13 AM, Brown Beezer via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org>
> wrote:
>
> 
> Hello Chris, et al, hope you are all well..
>
> Yes, GenRad originally General Radio - a great company but they took a few
> wrong turns..... They were leaders in test equipment in the 1950's and
> early sixties but were overrun by Hewlett Packard and just didn't keep up.
> GR manufactured the first production oscilloscope but just didn't follow on
> as well as a number of other instruments. They made wonderful, high quality
> gear. We have quite a few examples at the museum.
>
> There are a couple of good books on their history.
>
> Cheers,
>
> BB
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Prata via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org>
> To: NEWSM Thursday Group <thursday at newsm.org>
> Sent: Mon, Jul 6, 2020 6:40 am
> Subject: [Thursday] GenRad in an Ad 1972
>
> This ad is kind of cool because it "drove" me to look up General Radio
> Co., founded in 1915. I wonder if today's Ford luxury offerings are 62dB?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Radio
>
>
> https://youtu.be/AKLILJ0t5eo
> <https://youtu.be/AKLILJ0t5eo>
> KNBC-4 1972 Flip Wilson Ford Sponsor Break. <https://youtu.be/AKLILJ0t5eo>
> KNBC-4 1972 Flip Wilson Ford Sponsor Break. all tapes are cleaned and
> baked before transfer. please keep in mind the quality Matters on condition
> of machines...
> youtu.be
>
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