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From: Adrian Tuddenham on 22 Dec 2009 16:43 Tim Williams <tmoranwms(a)charter.net> wrote: > "Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com/Snicker> > wrote in message news:8882j5l7qgvqje9lf8fbb46jo2ar1jont4(a)4ax.com... > >>How about the OLD analog guys? Eccles and Jordan, and > >>Steinmetz? We all build on their foundation work. > > > > How many OLD farts here even remember Eccles and Jordan? > > I do. I use their invention every day! Strictly speaking, isn't that digital? -- ~ Adrian Tuddenham ~ (Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply) www.poppyrecords.co.uk
From: Jim Thompson on 22 Dec 2009 16:48 On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:43:44 +0000, adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Adrian Tuddenham) wrote: >Tim Williams <tmoranwms(a)charter.net> wrote: > >> "Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com/Snicker> >> wrote in message news:8882j5l7qgvqje9lf8fbb46jo2ar1jont4(a)4ax.com... >> >>How about the OLD analog guys? Eccles and Jordan, and >> >>Steinmetz? We all build on their foundation work. >> > >> > How many OLD farts here even remember Eccles and Jordan? >> >> I do. I use their invention every day! > > >Strictly speaking, isn't that digital? At a microscopic level EVERYTHING is ANALOG :-) ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson, CTO | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | Help save the environment! Please dispose of socialism properly!
From: Michael A. Terrell on 23 Dec 2009 10:00 Phil Hobbs wrote: > > On 12/22/2009 12:32 PM, Bill Sloman wrote: > > http://www.analog-europe.com/212700488;jsessionid=2EYNK2XDSG2HZQE1GHOSKHWATMY32JVN?pgno=1 > > > > George Philbrick > > Bernard Gordon > > Jim Solomon > > Barrie Gilbert > > Bob J. Widlar > > Bob Pease > > Jim Williams > > Dennis Monticelli > > Tom Hornak > > > > pity about > > > > Alan Dower Blumlein > > > > apparently the fact that he never worked in the USA means that > > inventing the first practical televison and stereo systems doesn't > > count. He had 128 patents when he died when a bomber carring a > > protoptye of the H2S radar crashed on landing in 1942. > > > > -- > > Bill Sloman, Nijmegen > > > > Don't forget Mitch Ratcliffe the radio guy, Robert Watson-Watt the radar > guy, the unnamed heroes at Mullards who designed the Hanbury-Brown > correlator, Fred Terman the network analysis guy, Edwin Armstrong the > FM, superhet, and superregen guy, Thomas Edison the diode guy..... > > Analog folks all. > > Cheers > > Phil Hobbs Typical of Bill. Where is the list ot ten worst analog engineers? Is he afraid that his name would be the first, followed by Lucas, then Madman Muntz? -- Offworld checks no longer accepted!
From: JeffM on 22 Dec 2009 17:13 Joel Koltner wrote: >[...]Edwin Armstrong I was wondering if someone was going to mention him. (Hobbs did in the very first response.) It should be noted that David Sarnoff[1] of RCA got the FCC to change the spectrum assignment for FM, making all Armstrong's deployed FM units instantly obsolete. .. .. [1] Sarnoff was the Bill Gates of his day, seeing business as a demolition derby with only one winner. http://google.com/search?q=cache:xvpn8VluBXIJ:www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween1.html+MS.believes.that.putting.other.companies.out.of.business.is.not.merely.collateral.damage+Eric.S.Raymond+*-Cathedral-*-*-*+Microsoft-and-freedom-of-choice-*-*-*-*-*-*-*&strip=1 (at about the 50% mark)
From: Tim Williams on 22 Dec 2009 18:47
"Jim Thompson" <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com/Snicker> wrote in message news:rgf2j592j3fqg1625vircc4ik54ao2lf26(a)4ax.com... >>> > How many OLD farts here even remember Eccles and Jordan? >>> >>> I do. I use their invention every day! >> >>Strictly speaking, isn't that digital? > > At a microscopic level EVERYTHING is ANALOG :-) Digital is a subset of analog, which is a subset of physics. I have a major in all of them. ;-) Tim -- Deep Friar: a very philosophical monk. Website: http://webpages.charter.net/dawill/tmoranwms |