Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 19/9/05, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>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... ;-) > >Nice story GDG. Ta.
When I was service manager at a high end audio shop in Rochester, the owner commissioned a "store brand" of components from a local manufacturer (Belles Audio, if anyone remembers them). Their power amps were good but the pre amp they designed for us was a piece of shite. I was able to get a major improvement in signal-to-noise simply(?) by completely re-routing the ground path on the circuit board. Of course, it needed a *lot* more than that to become usable... -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
