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[Article] remembering Walter LeCroy
« on: July 11, 2023, 01:31:48 am »
This might of interest to this crowd.  An article about Walter LeCroy, founder of LeCroy Corporation, who passed on May 10.  Apologies if this ran already.  I did a quick search but didn't find it.

https://www.teledynelecroy.com/walter-lecroy/

and his obit

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/walter-lecroy-obituary?id=51970873

Seems like a nice fellow and good boss. 
 
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Re: [Article] remembering Walter LeCroy
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2023, 01:16:18 am »
Must have been great to work at LeCroy. I still have a 9354AL. 4 channels, 500Mhz bandwidth, 2GSa/s, 8MSa of sample memory.
 

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Re: [Article] remembering Walter LeCroy
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2023, 04:03:33 am »
  I have a couple of the 9354s. They're great scopes! I wish that I had discovered them years sooner.
 

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Re: [Article] remembering Walter LeCroy
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2023, 11:06:10 pm »
I liked this quote from his obituary:
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Rather, he encouraged his staff to innovate and was known to motivate the engineers at LeCroy by telling them: "You people are not making mistakes fast enough!"

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Re: [Article] remembering Walter LeCroy
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2023, 11:14:29 pm »
I liked this quote from his obituary:
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Rather, he encouraged his staff to innovate and was known to motivate the engineers at LeCroy by telling them: "You people are not making mistakes fast enough!"

   Assuming that he hired people that are willing to LEARN from their mistakes, that's not a bad approach.   I used to have a sign over my desk that said "Good Judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."
 


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