[Test-Equipment] Dana board ID

[John Kolb]

A link to a 1981 IEEE article indicates that Racal-Dana was the UK 
distributor for
Exact Electronics at that time.  Seems likely that Racal-Dana bought 
them outright at a later date.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel5%2F5266378%2F5269276%2F05269762.pdf%3Ftp%3D%26arnumber%3D5269762%26punumber%3D5266378&authDecision=-203

There's some mention on the net that Exact was a part of Tektronix, 
but the linkage
seems to be that it was founded by former Tek employees.  Tek may have provided
some startup funding - they apparently did that some.  Exact was 
located in Washington.

I worked for Wavetek in the '60's/70's so was somewhat aware of Exact 
as a competitor.
As I recall, bout 1970, Exact hired the Wavetek VP of Engineering, 
Jerry Foster, to be it's
president, and we later heard that somehow he ended up owning Exact.

John

At 02:37 PM 5/15/2011, you wrote:
>Don't assume that something labeled "Dana" was made by Racal Dana. I
>have a Dana 128 Lin/Log Sweep Generator, and the manual says it was made
>by Dana Electronics in WA.
><http://public.fotki.com/mikesloane/old-electronics-and/dana128.html> I
>have been led to believe that Dana was somehow related to Tektronix, but
>I have no other confirming information.
>
>Mike