An audio recording of an oral history of Neal McInnins on his family moving from Scotland to Oregon and his experiences with 4-H. Audio quality is poor.
An audio recording of an oral history of Charles (Chuck) Colgrove on the fair board and 4H Club. Scratchy quality. Digital copy is .wav file; sounds like it is copied from cassette but original format is unknown.
An audio recording of an oral history of Patrick Green on his experiences working at Tektronix and Planar in Washington County's 'Silicon Forest.' Topics include: how his interest in science developed; calculators and computers at work in the 1970s; the earliest personal computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s; being hired at Tektronix in 1979; working in research & development (R&D); designing screen display technologies; working as an engineer and a project manager; the spinoff of Planar as a company; creating display technologies at Planar; cultures of the two companies; international business; filing patents and publishing research; development of the 'Silicon Forest' in Washington County, Oregon; women and people of diverse backgrounds in the technology sector; and other topics. This recording is accompanied by a transcript.
An audio recording of an oral history of Tony Schmidt on the Silicon Forest and Rodgers Instruments, a digital music organ company. Topics include: his education as an accountant; the culture at Rodgers; working his way up from Accounting Manager to Chief Financial Officer beginning in 1989; the relationship between Rodgers and Roland Corporation; the origins of the Rodgers company in 1958; technological advancements in electronic organ design; environmental compliance issues; the market for organs centered on churches; changes to traffic and the landscape of Washington County between the 1980s-2000s as technology companies grew; and other topics. There is a transcript of this interview.
Part 2 of an audio recording of an oral history of Bill Roesch. on the semiconductor industry in Washington County, particularly at the companies Tektronix and TriQuint. This section includes: his early interest and education in technology; being recruited to work at Tektronix in the early 1980s; semiconductor technology at Tektronix in the 1980s; daily work in the testing unit at Tektronix; lack of women in the semiconductor industry; demise of mainframe computer terminal manufacturing at Tektronix; creation of spin-off companies; experimental products at Tektronix; origins of TriQuint's gallium arsenide semiconductor business; being recruited to join TriQuint; technological advancements using gallium arsenide components; revenue sources; and other topics. There is a transcript of this interview.
Part 1 of an audio recording of an oral history of Bill Roesch. on the semiconductor industry in Washington County, particularly at the companies Tektronix and TriQuint. This section includes: how TriQuint's gallium arsenide semiconductor wafers differ from silicon wafers; manufacturing processes at TriQuint; an audio tour of the fabrication section and test section of TriQuint company headquarters; shift schedules and daily work in the fabrication unit; and processes in manufacturing and testing semiconductor products. There is a transcript of this interview.
Part 2 of an audio recording of an oral history of Bill Walker on the Silicon Forest and Tektronix. Topics in this section include: Tektronix's international business and the International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC); the effect of the early 1980s Recession on Tektronix; profit sharing with employees; the development of the 'Silicon Forest' in Washington County; the founding of Electro Scientific Industries (ESI); annual shareholder meetings; his children's careers; stories about how Tektronix was founded; other key people in Tektronix's history; and other topics. There is a transcript of this interview.
Part 1 of an audio recording of an oral history of Bill Walker on Tektronix and the 'Silicon Forest' in Washington County, Oregon. Topics in this section include: his education; military service during the Korean War; using Tektronix products in the military; going to work as an engineer for Tektronix in the 1950s; creating the 'Phase System' of development; starting an integrated circuit working group; working his way up to be Chief Operating Officer of Tektronix; starting the Tek Development Company to incubate spinoff companies; training opportunities; author Jean Auel working at Tektronix; office culture; international business with Europe and Japan; and other topics. There is a transcript of this interview.
Part 2 of an audio recording of an oral history of Lee Mason on the Silicon Forest and Tektronix. Topics in this section include: resigning from the Southern Pacific Railroad; returning to Oregon in 1956 and applying for work at Tektronix; being hired to work on the production line; doing shift work with sheet metal and injection molding; manufacturing processes; working in the plastic pre-production unit; plastics plant in the early 1980s; creating his own small plastics company; retirement around 1984; other spinoff plastics companies; how production rates were set; racial and ethnic diversity of the production staff; and other topics. There is a transcript of this interview.
Part 1 of an audio recording of an oral history of Lee Mason on the Silicon Forest and Tektronix. Topics in this section include: arriving in Portland during World War II to work in the shipyards; working as a telegraph operator for the Southern Pacific Railroad in Woodburn and Clackamas in the 1940s; celebrating Victory in Japan (VJ) Day in Portland; and other topics. There is a transcript of this interview.
Part 1 of an audio recording of an oral history of Dr. Toshio Inahara, speaking about his experience as a Japanese American in Washington County during World War II. This is a brief introductory interview that was conducted in order to prepare for the longer interview in Part 2. Topics in this section include: moving to a strawberry farm Hillside, Oregon, near Gales Creek and Forest Grove in the 1930s; driving at age 10; going to school in Hillside, Forest Grove High School and Hillsboro High School; moving to other farms near Hillsboro and Helvetia; obtaining a special permit in 1942 to allow the family to continue farming and not go to an internment camp; picking hops and doing other labor to make ends meet; hearing about Pearl Harbor; and white neighbors who leased one of their properties during the war. There is a transcript of this interview.
