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Article #647Re: OT: Only in America
From: John Larkin
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:26
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:26
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On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 06:06:58 -0800 (PST), Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote: >If I envied anybody in that area, I'd envy Barry Gilbert and Bob >Widlar. I've met Barrie Gilbert and quite liked him - his interest in >Cambridge Instruments was limited to workig out whether we were >potential customers for the RF processing chips he was developing at >the time, which we weren't, but he was civil enough to conceal his >dissappointment. I met Widlar's (last) girlfriend at the bar at the Washington Square Bar and Grille. They were living in Puerto Villarta and she was back in SF visiting relatives. We started talking, I mentioned that I was an EE, and we got around to discovering who she lived with. She was surprised that I'd heard of him and had no idea that he was famous. He apparently did IC layouts on the kitchen table and wouldn't let her ever see them. He sounded paranoid, and, as she noted with concern, was drinking himself to death. John
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