Archives for March 2009
The Barney Oliver Amplifier Story
Another audio brother, Thomas, sent me this link last week.
The Barney Oliver Amplifier Story
Doesn’t it sound like HP was a wonderful company to work in back then? If you read The HP Way, you’ll appreciate better the way Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard envisioned the company is run.
I was working in Agilent (the original HP [...]
24 March 2009 | Business | No Comments
A great audio friend has passed
I received this email from Harry Zweben of twobaldguysaudio.com this morning.
Greetings-
I am writing with no small degree of sadness to share the news of Dave Merrill’s passing. Dave died last Wednesday after a long battle with heart disease. “Battle” is hardly the right word, as Dave knew that his time was limited over the past [...]
20 March 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
No one is sacred from being layed off
Brother YH sent me this link about National Semiconductor’s Bob Pease being layed off.
Now this is a MAJOR, MAJOR disappointment. You will think that a company like NS will recognize top engineering talent, or someone like Bob Pease will be immune to being retrenched, but there you go. It happened!
YH introduced the work of Bob [...]
19 March 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
The passing of a friend
Due to workload commitments, I have been working on the road since Christmas Day 2008 itself. Short for a week long break for Chinese New Year, been away throughout this time and only now things are settling down.
So I was shocked to hear from a friend of John Potis’ passing on 22 Dec 2008.
You may [...]
14 March 2009 | diyparadise | No Comments
