The beginning of translinear circuit design

In the autumn of 1954, I met my lifetime companion and partner, whom we'll identify just by the initials “BJT,” at a research lab in the south of England. After a decade of deepening familiarity and joyous discovery together, we moved to Oregon, to continue our adventures at Tektronix. This company, dedicated to fashioning the world's finest oscilloscopes, took the unusual step in 1965 of establishing an integrated circuit production line, to support future instrumentation.