Bob Widlar, a sheep, and the small accounting insight sitting inside every analog chip you own
I had to look up that last bit and was not disappointed... by the bonus photos. https://www.edn.com/bob-widlar-cherry-bombs-the-intercom-speaker/
Right?!
Incidentally, check out this Bob Pease piece: https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/analog/article/21795678/whats-all-this-widlar-stuff-anyhow
extra fun stuff and more pictures. Did not disappoint!
Widlar was a legend. I really wonder what would have happened if he actually overcame his disdain towards digital and embraced it, perhaps we would have had Microprocessor breakthrough far earlier..
The world used to have genuinely diverse people in it! Hope they are still out there somewhere (hiding from current corporate diversity haha...)
Love to hear more about anything analog, anything where benighted tight-fisted middle management trolls lose people, real innovators like Mead, etc.
Great piece on semicon history.
Here is a piece that I wrote for legendary Bob Pease
https://medium.com/@Asterixnet/the-event-horizon-b587518e180f
Incidentally, have you read Pease's rebuttal of obituaries and additional untold stories of Widlar? Here it is: https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/analog/article/21795678/whats-all-this-widlar-stuff-anyhow
Thanks for sharing. No i did not. Still remember Bob Pease in meetings. What a legend
Enjoyed reading this, thanks!
I had to look up that last bit and was not disappointed... by the bonus photos. https://www.edn.com/bob-widlar-cherry-bombs-the-intercom-speaker/
Right?!
Incidentally, check out this Bob Pease piece: https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/analog/article/21795678/whats-all-this-widlar-stuff-anyhow
extra fun stuff and more pictures. Did not disappoint!
Widlar was a legend. I really wonder what would have happened if he actually overcame his disdain towards digital and embraced it, perhaps we would have had Microprocessor breakthrough far earlier..
The world used to have genuinely diverse people in it! Hope they are still out there somewhere (hiding from current corporate diversity haha...)
Love to hear more about anything analog, anything where benighted tight-fisted middle management trolls lose people, real innovators like Mead, etc.
Great piece on semicon history.
Here is a piece that I wrote for legendary Bob Pease
https://medium.com/@Asterixnet/the-event-horizon-b587518e180f
Incidentally, have you read Pease's rebuttal of obituaries and additional untold stories of Widlar? Here it is: https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/analog/article/21795678/whats-all-this-widlar-stuff-anyhow
Thanks for sharing. No i did not. Still remember Bob Pease in meetings. What a legend
Enjoyed reading this, thanks!