C. Norman Winningstad oral history recording

C. Norman Winningstad oral history recording

An audio recording of an oral history of C. Norman Winningstad. Winningstad (November 5, 1925 – November 24, 2010) was an American engineer and businessman in the state of Oregon. A native of California, he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II before working at what is now Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. After moving north to Oregon, he started working for Tektronix before starting several companies in what became the Silicon Forest in the Portland metropolitan area. He founded or helped to found Floating Point Systems, Lattice Semiconductor, and Thrustmaster. Winningstad and his wife were also noted philanthropists in the Portland area, with a theater at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts named in his wife Dolores’ honor.[bio from Wikipedia]. There is a transcript of this interview.

Winningstad, C. Norman

Washington County Museum

1996

High Tech collection

audio

5 cassette tapes

Doyle, Barbara