What’s All This Surplus HP 428B Stuff, Anyhow? (.PDF Download)

June 22, 2016

I received a very nice letter from Jim Samuels, an engineer at Carestream Health Inc. He talks about how Bob Pease helped him out on a visit to Silicon Valley. Samuels writes: “I was reading some of your Bob Pease articles, enjoying not only Bob’s perspective on analog engineering, but also your own observations...

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