if anyone remembers my royer circuit thread from a while back this is related.

turns out that circuit may need ot be re-designed, and since i am the only EE on the project i will be the one doing it.

i contacted linear tech and jim williams called me back and left a voice mail...hard to think of a better guy to assist me with a royer design.

anyone else ever worked with an industry guru?

this will def be my first go round in a scenario like this, usually i just get help from the most senior EE who works here.

 

Ed Yourdon was a consultant at ComShare in the late 60's where I worked as a junior programmer.

http://www.yourdon.com/

Over a weekend, he wrote in longhand with a felt tip marker, a PDP-8 Cross Assembler for the SDS-940 in assembly language. It was handed to me at 8:00 AM Monday morning. I used a model 33 Teletype to key it in and except for some very minor problems was working by Tuesday afternoon. It was the most incredible demonstration of bug free coding I have ever seen before or since.

 

crazy

he wrote the entire thing by hand....didnt check it once....and then you took it and typed it in and it worked in a day or two?

good god.


what a maniac.

 

crazy

he wrote the entire thing by hand....didnt check it once....and then you took it and typed it in and it worked in a day or two?

good god.


what a maniac.

That is essentially correct, the way it happened. I doubt he'd remember it however. He's been a giant for nearly half a century.

 

for him it was probably poorly written.

 

Gee I dunno. I learned an awful lot about cross assemblers, symbol tables, searching, sorting, matching and so forth. For me it was an awesome educational exercise.