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[Article] remembering Walter LeCroy
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globoy:
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.
SiliconWizard:
Must have been great to work at LeCroy. I still have a 9354AL. 4 channels, 500Mhz bandwidth, 2GSa/s, 8MSa of sample memory.
Stray Electron:
I have a couple of the 9354s. They're great scopes! I wish that I had discovered them years sooner.
alm:
I liked this quote from his obituary:
--- Quote ---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!"
--- End quote ---
Stray Electron:
--- Quote from: alm on July 12, 2023, 11:06:10 pm ---I liked this quote from his obituary:
--- Quote ---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!"
--- End quote ---
--- End quote ---
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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