Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR. He showed me a little Korean hard drive portable music player, not much more than the Compaq reference design it was based off of. It was fun watching it happen. com Michael Robertson.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

The ultimate dream of ELINT equipment designers was a “high-probability of intercept” receiver, one that would pick up a signal that came up on any frequency and capture even a single pulse, however brief. As a microwave preamp, it had high gain, low noise and extremely wide bandwidth. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

But unlike the majority of existing tube manufacturers in the valley who were making products for radios, Stanford Electronics Research Lab tube group had a special customer with very special needs – the U.S. So what exactly was the Electronics Research Lab designing? Air Force and its Strategic Air Command.

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