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Silicon Valley Nation: Jim Williams' engineering bench comes home
Brian Fuller
10/16/2012 2:35 PM EDT
The installation
Williams' bench and hundreds of pounds of electronics occupies a special place inside one of Linear's labs in Milpitas, Calif.
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Williams' bench and hundreds of pounds of electronics occupies a special place inside one of Linear's labs in Milpitas, Calif.
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David Ashton
10/16/2012 6:06 PM EDT
One thing I like about Jim Williams is that if anyone tells me my workbench is a mess, I can tell them I'm in good company! It is right that it has become a shrine of sorts. I wonder what happened to Bob Pease's bench? Brian....???
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Virtus Probi
10/17/2012 3:22 PM EDT
I hope the Jaguar model has a spot in the display. Jim was a brilliant man, for sure.
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RRynk
10/18/2012 11:11 AM EDT
'scope with Schweber's number attached being Tektronics Type 575 Transistor Curve Tracer. Jim was avid user of Tek instruments from the 60s and 70s
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Brian Fuller2
10/18/2012 11:40 AM EDT
David, excellent question, and you've prompted the TI folks to dig into that. It turns out Bob's workspace at National was a big of, um, a hazard shall we say. But we'll work to solve this mystery.
Cheers,
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simonb
10/24/2012 10:15 AM EDT
Alan Martin cleaned bobs desk. It stayed pretty the same for about 6 months after he passed away. Some of his stuff was packed up.
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Brian Fuller2
10/24/2012 10:35 AM EDT
@Simonb, I heard on Monday that whatever was left was packed up and deposited with Bob's widow. I can imagine she was overwhelmed.
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