On Sep 19, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Glen wrote:
... They even nag one circuit board for having a "slightly crowded" layout, which by itself doesn't have any real effect on performance or reliability at all. ...
This sparks a memory from the early days of Apple's Macintosh. SJ was riding heard on the project like an expectant hen ... the guy laying out the logic board was having trouble with RFI and cross-talk. SJ heads over to his bench one day and pronounces, "Of course it has problems. It's not neat and tidy. Do it this way..." and draws a nice, neat, orthogonal layout. Such was the force of the man that the engineer built one to his drawing. Of course, it didn't work *at all* that way.
In SJ's defense, he was a lot younger then... ;-) Godfrey
