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<div class="x_PlainText x_elementToProof">> As the old saying goes, if you don't read history you're doomed to repeat it.<br>
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Unless your name was Bob Widlar whereupon you called everybody's previous attempts cretinous and then did the job properly, changing our industry forever.<br>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">> I see no contradiction here. He read history, didn't repeat it.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Read up more on him, or listen to the few left who knew him. He never read about how others did things, only what was needed in a new product. And if Talbert told him it had been done that way before he often
binned it as he was after step changes. The ultimate original thinker, and greatest electronics engineer of all time.<br>
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