Years ago I did design work for Arizona Microtek and helped a very
bright young student/junior engineer along with his education in
ASIC's and solid state design.

So where does he end up...

http://www.schreyeraudio.com/ ;-)

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

America: Land of the Free, Because of the Brave

Jim Thompson wrote:
Years ago I did design work for Arizona Microtek and helped a very
bright young student/junior engineer along with his education in
ASIC's and solid state design.

So where does he end up...

http://www.schreyeraudio.com/ ;-)

...Jim Thompson

"All tube guitar amplifiers are point-to-point hand wired"

Boy, you musta scared that guy.

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

Do you need to implement control loops in software?
"Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" gives you just what it says.
See details at http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:04:07 -0700, Tim Wescott
wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
Years ago I did design work for Arizona Microtek and helped a very
bright young student/junior engineer along with his education in
ASIC's and solid state design.

So where does he end up...

http://www.schreyeraudio.com/ ;-)

...Jim Thompson

"All tube guitar amplifiers are point-to-point hand wired"

Boy, you musta scared that guy.

He was really quite good at high-speed ASIC's... a natural.

And he still does design work for Fairchild.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress
discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."

- Alexis de Tocqueville

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:57:20 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:


Years ago I did design work for Arizona Microtek and helped a very
bright young student/junior engineer along with his education in
ASIC's and solid state design.

So where does he end up...

http://www.schreyeraudio.com/ ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Tragic. And why do audio people keep using those fakey scrolley Gothic
fonts on their gear? And the rotten mis-registered silk-screening?

John

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:18:10 -0700, John Larkin
wrote:

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:57:20 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:


Years ago I did design work for Arizona Microtek and helped a very
bright young student/junior engineer along with his education in
ASIC's and solid state design.

So where does he end up...

http://www.schreyeraudio.com/ ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Tragic. And why do audio people keep using those fakey scrolley Gothic
fonts on their gear? And the rotten mis-registered silk-screening?

John


It's NOT tragic. I suspect he's making a bundle selling to
audiophools. Sometimes I think I missed my calling. I can turn out
stuff like that with ease ;-)

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine Sometimes I even put it in the food

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:18:10 -0700, John Larkin
wrote:

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:57:20 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:


Years ago I did design work for Arizona Microtek and helped a very
bright young student/junior engineer along with his education in
ASIC's and solid state design.

So where does he end up...

http://www.schreyeraudio.com/ ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Tragic. And why do audio people keep using those fakey scrolley Gothic
fonts on their gear? And the rotten mis-registered silk-screening?

John


It's NOT tragic. I suspect he's making a bundle selling to
audiophools. Sometimes I think I missed my calling. I can turn out
stuff like that with ease ;-)

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine Sometimes I even put it in the food

Jim Thompson wrote:

Years ago I did design work for Arizona Microtek and helped a very
bright young student/junior engineer along with his education in
ASIC's and solid state design.

So where does he end up...

http://www.schreyeraudio.com/ ;-)

At least there's a future in that !

Graham

John Larkin wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:

Years ago I did design work for Arizona Microtek and helped a very
bright young student/junior engineer along with his education in
ASIC's and solid state design.

So where does he end up...

http://www.schreyeraudio.com/ ;-)

Tragic. And why do audio people keep using those fakey scrolley Gothic
fonts on their gear? And the rotten mis-registered silk-screening?

Not in the UK we don't.

Graham

Jim Thompson wrote:

It's NOT tragic. I suspect he's making a bundle selling to
audiophools.

Merely shows how tragically out of touch you are.

These are GUITAR amplifiers NOT hi-fi.

Graham

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:00:47 +0000, Eeyore
wrote:



John Larkin wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:

Years ago I did design work for Arizona Microtek and helped a very
bright young student/junior engineer along with his education in
ASIC's and solid state design.

So where does he end up...

http://www.schreyeraudio.com/ ;-)

Tragic. And why do audio people keep using those fakey scrolley Gothic
fonts on their gear? And the rotten mis-registered silk-screening?

Not in the UK we don't.

Graham

OK, show us your stuff.

John

John Larkin wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
John Larkin wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:

Years ago I did design work for Arizona Microtek and helped a very
bright young student/junior engineer along with his education in
ASIC's and solid state design.

So where does he end up...

http://www.schreyeraudio.com/ ;-)

Tragic. And why do audio people keep using those fakey scrolley Gothic
fonts on their gear? And the rotten mis-registered silk-screening?

Not in the UK we don't.

OK, show us your stuff.

I don't do guitar amps myself - at least not since 1981 but here's an
example.
http://www.marshallamps.com/

Nothing Gothic about those AFAICS. Apart maybe from the music sometimes
played through them.

Graham

"Jim Thompson" wrote in
message ...

Years ago I did design work for Arizona Microtek and helped a very
bright young student/junior engineer along with his education in
ASIC's and solid state design.

So where does he end up...

http://www.schreyeraudio.com/ ;-)

Doing what you love can be better than doing what you are good at!

"Our goal is to provide electronics that have an organic tone and feel such
that they are an extension of your instrument and a key component in your
performance"

Organic food tastes great, wonder what the sound tastes like?

Dave.

"Jim Thompson" wrote in
message ...

Years ago I did design work for Arizona Microtek and helped a very
bright young student/junior engineer along with his education in
ASIC's and solid state design.

So where does he end up...

http://www.schreyeraudio.com/ ;-)

I had a colleague once to told me about showing off a product to his wife
that he spent 18 months of long hours helping to design.
Wife: "That's beautiful dear, but it took you 18 months to design that
little box?".
Husband: "Oh no, I didn't design the box, see that tiny black chip inside,
THAT'S what I spent 18 months of my life on!"

Dave.

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:45:20 GMT, "David L. Jones"
wrote:


"Jim Thompson" wrote in
message ...

Years ago I did design work for Arizona Microtek and helped a very
bright young student/junior engineer along with his education in
ASIC's and solid state design.

So where does he end up...

http://www.schreyeraudio.com/ ;-)

I had a colleague once to told me about showing off a product to his wife
that he spent 18 months of long hours helping to design.
Wife: "That's beautiful dear, but it took you 18 months to design that
little box?".
Husband: "Oh no, I didn't design the box, see that tiny black chip inside,
THAT'S what I spent 18 months of my life on!"

Dave.


Paraphrase from Woody Allen: 'My father worked in a factory all his
life, and was replaced by a little chip that could do everything he
could at twice the speed and half the cost. The depressing part was
that my mother went out and got one'.

People often ask me what I do. Most people think they understand what
a software engineer does, but after explaining my job in the simplest
terms, they usually end up asking whether I can remove the spyware
from their pc. My answer is usually 'can I borrow a hammer?'.

Hardware engineers can at least point at physical things and say "I
made that". People are always far more impressed by my silly little
hardware hacks than my software, even when I lie and say I invented
the internet.

I watched a Nova last night about the son of Hugh Everett, who was the
inventor of the 'many worlds' interpretation of quantum mechanics. His
son is a rock musician, and the show was both a commercial for his
music, and his exploration of the work of his father, talking to his
father's friends and coworkers. He didn't have a clue, but the music
wasn't bad.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/manyworlds/

I guess nobody really gets what people in technology do except the
people who are also doing it.

Regards,
Bob Monsen

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:22:06 +0000, Eeyore
wrote:



John Larkin wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
John Larkin wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:

Years ago I did design work for Arizona Microtek and helped a very
bright young student/junior engineer along with his education in
ASIC's and solid state design.

So where does he end up...

http://www.schreyeraudio.com/ ;-)

Tragic. And why do audio people keep using those fakey scrolley Gothic
fonts on their gear? And the rotten mis-registered silk-screening?

Not in the UK we don't.

OK, show us your stuff.

I don't do guitar amps myself - at least not since 1981 but here's an
example.
http://www.marshallamps.com/

Nothing Gothic about those AFAICS. Apart maybe from the music sometimes
played through them.

Graham


Did you design the Marshall amps?

Their "Marshall" logo sure is a hokey scrolley font.

John

"John Larkin" wrote in message ...
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:22:06 +0000, Eeyore
wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
John Larkin wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:

Years ago I did design work for Arizona Microtek and helped a very
bright young student/junior engineer along with his education in
ASIC's and solid state design.

So where does he end up...

http://www.schreyeraudio.com/ ;-)

Tragic. And why do audio people keep using those fakey scrolley Gothic
fonts on their gear? And the rotten mis-registered silk-screening?

Not in the UK we don't.

OK, show us your stuff.

I don't do guitar amps myself - at least not since 1981 but here's an
example.
http://www.marshallamps.com/

Nothing Gothic about those AFAICS. Apart maybe from the music sometimes
played through them.

Graham

Did you design the Marshall amps?

Their "Marshall" logo sure is a hokey scrolley font.

John


Do you mean, 'Cursive'?

Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
http://www.garberstreet.com

"If you wish to forget anything on the
spot, make a note that this thing is to
be remembered." (Edgar Allen Poe)

John Larkin wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
John Larkin wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
John Larkin wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:

Years ago I did design work for Arizona Microtek and helped a very
bright young student/junior engineer along with his education in
ASIC's and solid state design.

So where does he end up...

http://www.schreyeraudio.com/ ;-)

Tragic. And why do audio people keep using those fakey scrolley Gothic
fonts on their gear? And the rotten mis-registered silk-screening?

Not in the UK we don't.

OK, show us your stuff.

I don't do guitar amps myself - at least not since 1981 but here's an
example.
http://www.marshallamps.com/

Nothing Gothic about those AFAICS. Apart maybe from the music sometimes
played through them.

Did you design the Marshall amps?

No. Did I claim to ? They are however the world's leading brand of amplification
for guitarists.


Their "Marshall" logo sure is a hokey scrolley font.

Based on Jim Marshall's own signature.

Graham

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:41:51 +0000, Eeyore
wrote:



John Larkin wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
John Larkin wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
John Larkin wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:

Years ago I did design work for Arizona Microtek and helped a very
bright young student/junior engineer along with his education in
ASIC's and solid state design.

So where does he end up...

http://www.schreyeraudio.com/ ;-)

Tragic. And why do audio people keep using those fakey scrolley Gothic
fonts on their gear? And the rotten mis-registered silk-screening?

Not in the UK we don't.

OK, show us your stuff.

I don't do guitar amps myself - at least not since 1981 but here's an
example.
http://www.marshallamps.com/

Nothing Gothic about those AFAICS. Apart maybe from the music sometimes
played through them.

Did you design the Marshall amps?

No. Did I claim to ? They are however the world's leading brand of amplification
for guitarists.


Their "Marshall" logo sure is a hokey scrolley font.

Based on Jim Marshall's own signature.

Graham


OK, then I repeat: show us something you've designed.

John

John Larkin wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
John Larkin wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
John Larkin wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
John Larkin wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:

Years ago I did design work for Arizona Microtek and helped a very
bright young student/junior engineer along with his education in
ASIC's and solid state design.

So where does he end up...

http://www.schreyeraudio.com/ ;-)

Tragic. And why do audio people keep using those fakey scrolley Gothic
fonts on their gear? And the rotten mis-registered silk-screening?

Not in the UK we don't.

OK, show us your stuff.

I don't do guitar amps myself - at least not since 1981 but here's an
example.
http://www.marshallamps.com/

Nothing Gothic about those AFAICS. Apart maybe from the music sometimes
played through them.

Did you design the Marshall amps?

No. Did I claim to ? They are however the world's leading brand of amplification
for guitarists.

Their "Marshall" logo sure is a hokey scrolley font.

Based on Jim Marshall's own signature.

OK, then I repeat: show us something you've designed.

This thread was about guitar amps. I've only had a hand in one ages back. It was
supposed to be the 'tech's' project but he ****ed up so badly I had to help him out.
I notably remember hand rewinding the output TX to get the turns ratio right and
doing the front panel artwork.

Another daft idea of his was to have the amp fully enclosed, so a minature cooling
fan had to be fitted.

http://www.studiomaster.com/1981%20-%201982.htm

Graham