Re: Who is your favourite electronics guru?

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:06:28 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:


MC4024 and MC4044 (bipolar process) were done in the mid '60's before
CMOS became a viable process.

However the 4046 uses the very same phase detectors... it's just
processed in CMOS. And it's only been with modern 'HC processes that
the top frequency caught up with the MC4024.


One of the engineers at Microdyne was complaining that were might
have to redesign one of our low noise synthesizers because they were
having trouble getting the phase detector chips the had used for 20
years. I suggested he replace it with the 4046, and was rudely informed
that it wasn't fast enough because the original Phase Detector was ECL.
I asked him if he had forgot that the reference frequency was 100 KHz?
Boy, did I get dirty looks! I was also banned from the engineering
department for a month. ;-)



Must be terrible to be a Sloman... fading away with no accomplishments
to show for a lifetime... by his own accounts, unemployable, and a
kept man... his wife should give him the toss and get a real man ;-)


Why? She might prefer having a pet that can feed and walk itself,
and she just doesn't have the heart to have him put down.

I suppose that would be funny, but I had to "put down" a 15 year old
dog yesterday :-(

But I look on the positive side... two years ago I thought this dog
was a goner, so we, in our 40-some-year style of having at least a
pair of Dachshunds, added a new pup.

The old guy perked up and struggled through his arthritis and finally
incontinence for another two years.

Jim Thompson


Sorry to hear about your loss. My last dog was a 17 year old Rat
Terrier that we had to have him put to sleep. He was having mini
strokes, sometimes several in a day and we couldn't let him keep
suffering Over a couple months they went from once in awhile, to where
the vet said that he was going to die anyway. That was in the mid '70s,
and I haven't been able to bring myself to have another pet since then.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
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