G'day & New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand Gale’s bucket list included a trip to Australia and New Zealand, so we planned it out and went. I kept a travel log of the trip. Hopefully a few folks will be interested enough to…
Family histories
I think one of the most important thing I can write about is family histories. I will add to this section in the coming weeks, but for now, I have several articles that should be interesting to Gale’s and my…
Fairchild
Fairchild Semiconductor My first job as a graduate Electrical Engineer was with Honeywell in Minneapolis. Not exactly Silicon Valley. I took the Honeywell job after a good on-campus interview as I was about to graduate with a BSEE from the…
Etcetera
2 more BMW’s I replaced the SEC with a red 1997 BMW 540i. I bought it used from the dealer with the excellent BMW used car warranty. It was a very nice car, comfortable, fairly quick, great handling. But after…
Cars
This section may not be of great interest to people who don’t have at least a passing interest in cars. So be it. I will write it anyway. It is centered on cars (and a tractor) that I or my…
Book I wrote
You may know that for the past 2 years, my co-author Luc Olivier Bauer and I have been working on a book. It is about the history of Semiconductor Technology. It starts in the late 1950’s and goes through the…
Bomb Costs
The Costs of the Manhattan Project All figures in constant 1996 dollars Expenditures through August 1945* *Includes costs from 1940-42 for the National Defense Research council and the Office of Scientific Research and Development. Excludes $76 million spent by the…
BMW 2002
The BMW 2002 was the first ever true sports sedan. It was a two door with a back seat that was large enough for two adults. It was light, fast and agile. My first one was a 1970 white 2002. …
Bits and Pieces
The December 23, 2015 issue of the San Jose Mercury News had front page story about foxes stealing food and other things from golf carts at one of our local courses, Los Lagos. (Must have been a slow news day.) …
Animal Sight
When I was a boy we lived close to a pond that had a thriving population of frogs. I used to go down to the pond, and when I popped my head over the bank all of the frogs would…