[TowerTalk] Re: What was his name

[Avila, Edward]

In the 80's I worked for one of Charles Litton's (Litton Industries fame)
sons Larry and he explained to me removing just one part, say an IC costing
him $1/ea where he would sell a million units, would put $1-million bucks in
his pocket! So, we'd work on a design to bring some creation to life, then
the "real" engineers would take over eliminating as many parts as possible
before the thing we created stopped working!

/ed /k6sdw

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Gilmer - N2MG [mailto:n2mg@contesting.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 11:06 AM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Re: What was his name



Earl Madman Muntz (I think he is credited with inventing of the 8-track -
could be wrong)

He used badger engineers to explain the need for every part, and insist on
them removing ones he deemed unnecessary. If I remember correctly, these
included temperature compensating parts, parts designed to allow equipment
to work over wide supply voltage swings, etc.  Basically stuff that, when
removed in the lab, you'd never notice, but out in the field, well, they
were important.  Somehow, I don't think he was much of an engineer...

Let's see, that step start circuit..yank it...that grid protection scheme,
dump it...bypass capacitors? ferrite beads? get rid of them all!

Mike
N2MG

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