On the Just another electronics blog, they have dug out a vintage vector graphics workstation from the 1970s.
In my mind, Tektronix is a brand that makes electronics lab equipment like oscilloscopes and logic analyzers. Turns out, they made quite a few terminals and a couple of computers! A good friend saw this one for sale local to him, and I poked him till he agreed on picking it up for me.
Picking it up may be the wrong wording, this thing is big and heavy! It weights about 35kg and it’s nearly a meter long!
The machine I got is a Tektronix 4051 graphics workstation, released in 1975. BASIC computers where getting common, but graphics was pretty new. According to Tektronix the 4051 was ideal for researches, analysts and physicians, and this could be yours for the low low price of 6 grand, or around $36,000 in 2025.
The 4051 was also used in a few series/movies, the storage CRTs do not flicker when recorded like a normal CRT and as they run basic, getting something cool on screen was fairly easy to do! The best known example was Battlestar Galactica.
See how the unit was fixed and some of the capabilities in the post here.
And see some of the Battlestar Galactica graphics here.
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