Re: Ever heard of Potato Semiconductor?


Joel Koltner wrote:

<bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"He doesn't ever seem to have designed stuff for a
living, though he does claim to have fixed complicated gear from time
to time, which isn't quite the same thing."

I seem to recall that many of his "fixes" ended up making his employer's
product more reliable over time than they were when the engineers first let
them loose. That's the kind of guy who's worth even more than a regular old
design engineer...


Thanks, Joel. Bill doesn't seem to understand the difference between
prototypes built & tweaked in Engineering, VS the real world problems of
manufacturing and field support. I worked with a couple engineers like
him, but I changed their bad attitudes. It took a couple years, but
after that they called me whenever something was up on any product I
worked with. I also tracked problems on the production floor, and
spotted trends long before they showed up in the quarterly statistics.
With an attitude like Bill's i wasn't the least bit shy to storm into
their office, slap some papers on their desk and tell them off, when
they continued to screw up. OTOH, I was discrete when a good engineer
made a minor mistake. The engineers who were interested in product
quality were a hell of a lot better than the ones with ego problems. :)

BTW, some of my ideas were adopted for custom equipment we built for
the ISS. They also insisted that I work on the boards & modules for that
equipment, because I wouldn't let anything leave my bench if I suspected
a problem.



Hey, Bill! What is the DC voltage available on the ISS? How much
bandwidth is available from the NASA Earth Stations to the ISS? What
band is it on? I am as bad as you say, why was I on the team that built
the hardware for the pair of European Space Agency Earth Stations, as
well?


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