ARP vs. Moog (nice title, innit?)

[Gene Zumchak]

    Thanks to everyone who enlightened me about Alan R. Perlman's early work that
predated his synth business.  Incidentally, Moog, (my former employer) who didn't
really care how you pronounced his name, pronounced it as in rogue.  The origin of
the name is probably Nederlandisch, and perhaps someone from .nl can enlighten us as
to what the original pronounciation might be.

Gene



Paul Perry wrote:

> At 12:58 PM 9/04/99 -0400, Gene Zumchak  wrote:
>
> >    Moog must have had a lousy lawyer.  Moog used the dual transistors
> >for exponential from the very beginning, and he was out there a few years
> >before ARP.  If ARP had patented it, how could it hold up if there was a
> >product on the market already using it?
>
> Alan R Perlman wa designing transistor ckts many years befor the synth business.
> And, he claims to have invented the Darlington connection befor Darlington,
> but never bothered to patent it.... that would have hurt someone!
>
> paul perry Frostwave P/L Melbourne Australia