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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

So over the course of a couple of weeks engineering cobbled up a board with dedicated silicon that could process the full bandwidth for NTSC and fill an entire window. Peter Barrett digitized some files and we delivered the board and computer to Bruce.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part IX: Entrepreneurship in.

Steve Blank

As a microwave preamp, it had high gain, low noise and extremely wide bandwidth. A Traveling Wave Tube (TWT) could electronically tune through microwave frequencies at 1000 times faster than any other device, and it could operate in a frequency range measured in gigahertz.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VIII: The Rise of.

Steve Blank

While the Klystrons of the 1950’s had too narrow and bandwidth and were too large for airborne use, they could be scaled up to generate megawatts of power and were used to power the U.S. Fred Terman and David Packard of HP joined Varian’s board.)