After his professional baseball career ended in 1960, Martyn worked for Tektronix for 23 years.
Direct-view bistable storage tube (DVBST) was an acronym used by Tektronix to describe their line of storage tubes.
Its initial development was a result of Bentley Systems's experience developing PseudoStation released in 1984, a program designed to replace the use of proprietary Intergraph graphic workstations to edit DGN files by substituting the much less expensive Tektronix compatible graphics terminals.
Quality Micro Systems, a printer manufacturing company, at one time competed with giants like Hewlett Packard, Canon, Xerox, and Tektronix and was listed in the Fortune 500.
Apocryphally, some of the authors heard it from a Tektronix salesman.
In the 1950s growth of an electronics industry focused on Tektronix would create the foundation for what is known as the Silicon Forest.
At the time it was developed when Hewlett Packard (eventually sold to Pinnacle Systems) and Tektronix were both bringing to market the first of the VideoFile Servers to be used in the broadcast industry.
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal was a letter to the editor of Datamation, volume 29 number 7, July 1983, written by Ed Post, Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon, USA.
Maier has consulted with Tektronix, Inc., Servio Corporation, the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Digital Equipment Corporation, Altair, Honeywell, Texas Instruments, IBM, Microsoft, Informix, Oracle Corporation, NCR, and Object Design, as well as several governmental agencies.