While OT, in the interest of accuracy, it was linear guru Dave Fullagar, then at Fairchild, who designed the "741". Yes, it was Bob Widlar who pulled the wool over your eyes :-)
Peter -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Feher Sent: Sunday, 10 May 2015 2:36 PM To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' Subject: Re: [time-nuts] lawnmower robots may be the end of VLF timekeeping I remember that. It was when National was too cheap to cut their lawn. Regards - Mike Mike B. Feher, EOZ Inc. 89 Arnold Blvd. Howell, NJ, 07731 732-886-5960 office 908-902-3831 cell -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alexander Pummer Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2015 9:13 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] lawnmower robots may be the end of VLF timekeeping Bob Widlar -- yes the designer of the "741" -- of National Semiconductor had a better idea, he bought a few sheep 73 KJ6UHN Alex On 5/9/2015 2:02 PM, Mark Sims wrote: > iRobot (the Roomba vacuum cleaner people) have applied for an exemption to > allow them to send beacon signals in a 6-7 GHz band to fence in their new > lawnmower. The band they want to operate in is apparently for indoor only > low power applications. > > The easy solution is to just buy some goats... the emit very little in the > way of EMI... but do emit other, uhhhh, signals. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
