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Posted: Thu 22 Sep 2005, 21:27
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The Darke Arte
Many moons ago science was really the ability to work metal. It came from Egypt, a country with rich black Nile soil. This metal working skill was known as the 'Black Arte' or in Arabic Al-Kemi. Later on this name would be applied to programming.
Now some people like to froth at the mouth at the mention of programming or watchcraft or witchcraft (or whoever). For these wikid people need to be roasted for the good of their souls by the pure and virtuous (which leaves me out)
It is the sort of job G W Bush (that good man) would be only to willing to try and fry . . . He is a good man? Stupid maybe, imbecilic - perhaps - but good? Surely good? After all slaughter for oil and prophet - that is a good thing - surely . . .
Which brings us to Linux.
As we all know the penguin is a mark of the devil (a bird that can not fly? - Pah that is about as likely as a dinosaur with feathers!)
It is clear to every right thinking individual that the Church of Redmond and their Pope are only interested in looking out for us sheep - for our mint.
Repent brothers and sisters - follow the light of the Windows. Believe in the True Way of Vista.
I leave you now with the words of the blasphmer "rarsa"
Maybe it's just a matter of labels. If you define soul as a methaphysical entity that define us. I can discount it.
If you define soul as our identity (without the 'methaphysical' label) I cannot discount it.
We are physical entities and are ruled by physical laws. If you call that God, good.
If conservation of matter and energy can be called ethernal life, and that fits your rational needs, great.
So there is a rational need for religion for some people and that's OK.
There is a rational for not believing in supernatural entities and that's OK.
We can preach our own beliefs. We should never try impose them.
That should get some of you going a bit . . .
Troll? Moi? (Lobster looks around innocently)
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Posted: Thu 22 Sep 2005, 22:00
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I believe the earth is flat and I can prove it.
If it was curved I would be walking uphill all the time and would be exhausted in a very short period of time.
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Posted: Fri 23 Sep 2005, 17:43
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Church of Redmond? Bah! They are the heritics, not I. Just because they say they are right doesn't make it so.
The Catholics sold "get out of hell free" cards
, and Redmond sells "Get out of putting forth effort and loose your freedom free" cards. Gates can bite me! *patiently waits for lightning* Nope, I didn't think so.
I believe the earth is flat
I look out my window, and I see a hill. I look out the back door, and I see a ditch. When I was in Montana, I saw mountains. When I was in somewhere else around there, I saw canyons. In Georgia, I saw a pit called a "Shopping Center." From what I understand, New Orleans is below sea level. To my knowledge, Stone Mountain, Georgia, is above sea level. I have been there, so I know it is above ground. From the top, I saw other variations of height.
So take that! The earth is a turtle shell, not flat! Muahahahahahaaaa!
(Yes, I did eat six jawbreakers, ten packs of sweet tarts, three tootsie rolls, and a roll of smarties. So sue me
) (Not to mention that the entire state is out of school for Monday and Tuesday)
EDIT: Incedentally, the end of the world has come and gone:
Proof 1
Proof 2
Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. --Muad'Dib
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Posted: Sat 24 Sep 2005, 18:19
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Incedentally, the end of the world has come and gone:
Damn..........must have slept in and missed that one.
Is it being repeated??
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Posted: Sat 24 Sep 2005, 19:56
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According to the guy on the curb, it will be re-run tomorrow for anyone who missed it the first time.
Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. --Muad'Dib
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Posted: Sat 24 Sep 2005, 20:57
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I leave you now with the words of the blasphmer "rarsa"
Agnostic you meant?
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Posted: Sun 25 Sep 2005, 01:12
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rarsa wrote:
I leave you now with the words of the blasphemer "rarsa"
Agnostic you meant?
Yes I meant agnosticism is a form of blasphemy in some quarters . . . As someone with their own open source diety, for me, the only blasphemy is certainty . . .
Not quite sure about that - it might change . . .
Cecil the Ultimate Deity (open sauce)
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Posted: Fri 14 Oct 2005, 14:25
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Tossing my hat into this ring, heedless of the risks:
Although this may represent a significant departure from the precise thought-train of this thread, and...
Although I personally am a Devout Eclectic, and Practicing Priapist Monk, I have recently discovered that I am also a fervent FSM Sympathizer.
...Therefore I submit the following items of interest for your perusal and edification:
...perhaps an open-source chapter will arise and evolve, whenceforth the current FSM refererent ("...touched by his noodley appendage...") will, of necessity, be adjusted to "touched by ... his
Best Regards,
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Posted: Fri 14 Oct 2005, 20:45
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Geez Lobster,
what the heck are you on?
though I guess (as they say) in this 'information age', technology is the new religion.
Guess that makes you some sort of priest?
...now go to your cell, get on your knees and whip yourself with the mouse cable seven times.....and no rubbish about useing wireless.
re. the puppy promotions...there's a web site out there for Linux artists. With the graphic (and sound) abilities of puppy they should know about it...just a thought.
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Posted: Fri 14 Oct 2005, 22:34
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mortlocl wrote:
Geez Lobster,
what the heck are you on?
Fermented Seaweed
I believe the earth is flat and I can prove it.
If it was curved I would be walking uphill all the time and would be exhausted in a very short period of time.
Thanks Ian for putting us straight.
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Posted: Fri 14 Oct 2005, 22:50
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Actually, you would be walking downhill.
If you are a believer in the round Earth, here are some interesting tidbits:
Moving eastward makes you lighter and westward makes you heaver.
Reason: Earth spins to the east. The spinning lightens you. If you aremoving east, you are spinning faster, so you are lighter. If you are going west, you spin slower, so you are heavier.
If Earth stopped spinning, you would gain weight.
You weigh less when the moon is overhead.
If you go west fast enough, you can make the sun rise in the west.
If you dug a perfectly straight tunnel to somewhere distant (not just on the other side, think 30 degrees or so also), you could hop on your skate board and you would coast down it, then start slowing down, and wind up going back and forth until you stop in the middle. But the tunnel would be perfectly straight, with no hills.
Another thing I've been thinking about: You know how people like to show gravity as a trampoline/rubber-sheet, and mass as a marble/bowling ball? Well, why not envision it as a shere rather than a plane. Then, the mass would be drawn towards the center. More mass = deeper hole. The hole can only go as deep as the center. It's radius can increase, though. The center is a single point. Other masses could also reach the center. That means that the masses would come togeather at a single point. Those holes that reach the center could be black holes. So, the center of all black holes would be the same point. A black hole is really just a superdense ball of matter, and the amount of matter determines it's strength. So, a bigger black hole would have a bigger radius in the model, but it would be just as deep as the others. It would have it's own matter, but the point in the center would be shared with all sufficiently massive objects.
I'm probably completely wrong, but it's something to think about. After all, if space is supposedly "round," that would mean that gravity would be affecting a round area as well. Not necissarily a sphere, but the concept is similar for other shapes.
EDIT: Yep, I'm wrong.
It was fun though.
Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. --Muad'Dib
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Posted: Fri 14 Oct 2005, 23:28
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Have placed your comments here (still developing that wiki page)
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Posted: Sat 15 Oct 2005, 13:41
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Hmm... Keenerd informed me that my dent theory had a couple dents in it. Oh well.
Space is supposed to be "round" in a four(or more)-dimensional way. Matter warps space. That means that the warps could touch, which is what I was getting at. My sphericle trampoline was an attempt at showing how gravity/matter does it. I could have used the well known (in my experience anyway) example of folding a piece of paper so an ant can get across, but that doesn't show how gravity/matter helps.
Multiple dimensions are fun. Here's what keenerd told me. I never thought about it like this before:
keenerd wrote:
Try this: Put yourself in a 2D world, a Flatland or a sheet of paper. Put your arm out, and spin in a circle, pointing in all 360 degrees. Now, the 3D dimension extends in a direction at right angles to ALL of the direction you just pointed in. For a Flatlander, this sort of thing is incomprehesible. So, in the real 3D world, put out your arm and point in all directions. Spin around, and trace out a sphere. The fouth dimension is perpendicular to all of those at once. No one can literally understand it.
Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. --Muad'Dib
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Posted: Sun 30 Oct 2005, 09:53
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this applies to the confusing 'edge of the expanding universe' concept too...
down there in flatland, 'push' a 3D sphere thru the 2D flat plane. All they would see is a suddenly appearing point that becomes an expanding (then contracting) circle for no apparent reason.
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Jay T. Last
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Jay Last received a BS degree in Optics from the University of Rochester in 1951, and a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 1956. He was then recruited by William Shockley to work at the Shockley Semiconductor Labs. In September 1957, Last was one of the group of eight who founded Fairchild Semi conductor. At Fairchild he worked on the first commercial silicon planar transistors, and then ran the R&D group that produced the first integrated circuits. In 1961, Last joined Teledyne where he formed the Amelco division, and served as vice president for technology, overseeing the technical interaction of Teledyne's large number o f divisions. After he left Teledyne in the late 1970s, Last became involved with a number of venture capital activities, and was a founder of the Archaeological Conservancy, dedicated to saving American archaeological sites. He started Hillcrest Press in 1982, publishing books dealing with California art, ethnic art, and the graphic arts.
CA: Jay, could you start off by talking about where you were brought up and your education experience?
JL: Sure, I was born in Western Pennsylvania and went to school there in a small steel mill town. My father worked in the steel mill there and I was born in 1929 -- the week the stock market crashed -- and so in my first decade steel was a pretty tough industry to be involved with from my father's point-of-view. So my first 10 years were the Depression and after that there was five years of war so by the time I was 15 I realized I had seen nothing but depressions and wars.
I got a good high school education in this small town and then went to the University of Rochester and got a Bachelor's degree in optics and had a very heavy physics training there also which gave me the background, then, to go on to MIT and get a doctorate in solid state physics. Solid state physics was a relatively new field then. All of the technical developments from the 1930s and the things happening in the war just had this vast amount of physical phenomenon that were available for use in various commercial products and improving whatever we were doing. So my timing was just perfect. I got an education in solid state physics so I knew the background of the transistor field.
So then I was approached by [William] Shockley when I was finishing my degree. For my doctoral thesis I was working with a very complicated Beckman Instruments spectrophotometer which didn't work too well, so the Beckman people knew me and wanted me to come to work for them. I said, The last thing I would ever want to do was have anything more to do with that spectrophotometer. [Laughs] But that was just the time that Shockley had worked out an agreement with Arnold Beckman and Beckman said, You ought to go talk to Jay Last, so Shockley came up to MIT one day and we started talking and I realized that while transistors were not the field of my main choice, I found Shockley a very interesting and intriguing person. The other job I would have considered, of course, was Bell Labs. They wanted me to work there again in the same field of transistors but I made the decision to join Shockley.
CA: And you still have the offer letter that Shockley wrote to you.
JL: This is the letter. I'll just read the first paragraph. This was when Shockley was still in Southern California at the Beckman headquarters. This was November of 1955. He'd hired then two people. I was the third one he was considering hiring. He said, You have passed our tests with flying colors and I hope you'll wish to join my project at the starting salary of $675 a month. We would like you to start as soon as you can after completing the work necessary to obtain your degree.
So that was the start of it. I still had about four months work to do at that time for my thesis and at that time Shockley hired a lot of other people. To his disappointment he was not able to hire any of the key staff people at Bell Labs. I was told by the Bell Labs people who said, You don't know what you are getting into working with Shockley. But I thought, well, California is where I want to live and whatever happens, it's going to be an interesting time so I joined Shockley then.
CA: What were you actually doing at Shockley Labs in the first six or seven months?
JL: We were just setting up a laboratory, which started out to be a laboratory rather than a production facility, unfortunately, for the long-term but just developing the semiconductor technology and building equipment. Shockley made two key decisions. One was that we were going to work with silicon and [that] the fabrication technology was going to be diffusion and those were the key decisions that carried on to this day. Shockley maintained good relations with the top brass at Bell Labs so we could see the Bell Labs reports on occasion and so we were up with all the technology. We had access to what Bell 's thinking was on these things. I was never involved in the diffusion but that was a key thing we were working on then. We were working on crystal growers, all these things.
I was working on testing some of the four layer diodes. Shockley's bad decision was to try to make [four layer diodes] a lot more complicated device than the transistor. He wanted to invent something new which we realized was not the wisest choice to make.
CA: So did you have much chance to use your optics knowledge at that time?
JL: At that time no. I never used it in a really deep technical sense. At Shockley, no, I never did that. My main focus was on the solid state physics that I had learned. I had never seen a transistor at that time and didn't know much about them so I was busy trying to learn how transistors worked, as was the whole group. We'd have little study sessions trying to learn what are the key things we should be focusing on. I wrote a paper with Shockley on some aspects of energy levels.
CA: Were there any particular recollections or demonstrations of Shockley's brilliance that stood out to you?
JL: Just that every day, every time you talked to him, you could just see this. When I first met him I had some stumbling blocks in my thesis which was an area he wasn't terribly familiar with. But I started discussing it with him and he just immediately came up with a very good discussion of what I should be doing. I was just very impressed with him. I was then and I always have been. This guy was extremely bright. He paid a big price for that in that he was not terribly socially adept and didn't understand what motivated people very well.
CA: I guess people have said that because he was bright, in the scientific sense, that he wasn't a good businessman and that he made some bad decisions there, i.e., the four layer diode.
JL: Well, he had no business sense at all which was not surprising. There was no reason he should have but he got himself in a situation where he was going to need that stuff, so relationships deteriorated with Beckman and Shockley and that deteriorated our relationship so individually most of us made the decision we were going to leave. And the story has been told so many times that we realized maybe there was some way the group of us -- there was a group of seven of us then -- could get a job together and keep doing what we knew we could do [which] was make a transistor, rather than go our separate ways. We would try to find a company to hire us and the Hayden Stone people with Art Rock came out and said, You should start your own company, which was just completely foreign to us and it was foreign to the venture capital world. There wasn't any venture capital really at that time. But anyhow, we worked out an arrangement which led to us leaving and starting Fairchild and with some persuasion we persuaded Bob Noyce to join the group finally after we had got things fairly well set up. So the eight of us went off and started Fairchild.
Gene Kleiner's father had had some relationship with a Wall Street firm with some business he was running. So Gene just wrote a letter to these people and Art Rock was a junior associate there at the time and he had the wit not to throw our letter in the wastepaper basket and he and his boss, Bud Coyle, came out and talked to us. We decided at that time just to start our own company which was a really exciting, unknown thing for us to do. I was the youngest in the group then. I was 27 and the oldest was probably Gene Kleiner who was probably 32, so we were just a young bunch of guys. The agreement was that Hayden Stone would try and find a backer for us and we went down and listed about 20 or 30 companies that would be potential supporters of us to have our own enterprise and all 30 turned us down. The ones that got close, the lawyers would get involved and stopped the deal. And finally Art Rock and Bud [Coyle] got a hold of Sherman Fairchild who was intrigued with this and that turned out to be obviously the deal that worked.
CA: Now, of course, the term the traitorous Eight has come about but according to Emmy Shockley, she said her husband never used that term. Do you know where that came from?
JL: This was some newspaper guy way after the fact. It was at least 10 or 15 years [later] before I had ever heard the term and it just caught on. People seemed to like that.
CA: When you were leaving at the time you weren't called anything in particular?
JL: No, I don't know what Shockley called us behind our backs but it was a great shock to him that we did leave but we knew what we wanted to do which was make transistors.
CA: Can you talk about the first few weeks at Fairchild. What were you focused on just getting a building and getting it set up?
JL: An awful lot of things that we had never had any experience with we had to do. We had to get a building. We had to figure out who was going to do what. The interesting thing, as I look back on it, is the group we had. There were eight of us. We all had different skills but among the group we had all the necessary skills and it was a completely cooperative effort. We had no real boss. We had weekly meetings where we decided what we were going to do next. Bob Noyce and I were involved with a step-and-repeat camera. At the time I did use my optics [knowledge]. Jean Hoerni was involved with diffusion and he had a great deep, physical insight into a lot of things about the physics of semiconductors. Gordon [ Moore ] also was involved with diffusion. He made a great contribution he was the only one that knew how to blow glass so he was making all the jungles for the diffusion and he also was involved with metal evaporation. Sheldon Roberts just went off and got us right into the silicon crystal business. Vic Grinich was the one that really knew what transistors were and what they were used for and he set up all the testing facilities. Julie Blank was in charge of the facilities and also making equipment. Gene Kleiner was a magnificent equipment manufacturer, great machinist. He just loved that. He was good at that. And Gene also started taking over some of the administrative tasks. It's looked on as a group of eight but we did get some other key people and that's where the story is not quite accurate. The contributions of the people [outside] of the eight of us never got really recognized very well. Dave Allison, in particular, was a key person involved with the diffusions.
CA: I imagine that having worked together at Shockley and making the mistakes then, you were a pretty well oiled machine by the time you were at Fairchild and could really get things done a lot more efficiently.
JL: Oh, it was a complete change. Shockley was a micromanager and kept us isolated from each other. He had secret projects with some of us that the others didn't know about, but here we were working with a group [having] this Monday morning meeting where we would get together every week and figure where we were at. It took a long time to get the facility put together. We started about the first of October [1957] and we had to get power in the building and had to make all the equipment we needed, all the furnaces. About the only thing really we could buy were microscopes. Everything else we had to make ourselves.
We were focused on getting into the transistor business and an interesting thing was transistors up to that point had been made individually by various alloying techniques and this was the first time that transistor manufacture was a batch process. The wafers were miniscule by today's standards but there were still a lot of transistors on them. They were probably, I think, three quarters of an inch wafers that was the biggest we could handle.
It was remarkable to me, when I look back on it. We went into an empty building without power and had to build all of the equipment and had to develop all the supporting technology. We had to make crystals. We had to learn how to cut crystals, lap them. That was an area that I could use some of my optics background on making crystals. We had to build the diffusion furnaces. We had to learn how to make controllable, reproducible diffusions. We had to develop all the technology for putting metal interconnections on them. We had to figure out how to put them in packages, how to put leads on the package, and how to test them, and how to build a device that was going to be a high reliability device and so we did all these things. And I look back on it and I was just amazed to realize that 10 months after we went into this empty building we had a commercial product which we announced at Wescon, which showed the way that we were working and cooperating each one of us depending on the rest of the group to do their part. They depended on me to do my part and everybody else to do theirs. We all did it. We worked together really without too much of an overall leader telling us what to do. The problems we had to solve were obvious and we just solved whatever had to be done.
CA: Jay, could you talk in a little more detail about the work you did in the optics area? You said you and Bob Noyce worked on that in the step-and-repeat camera and then also I believe you did some work on photo resists?
JL: Oh yes. I was working on that. The optics was not a question of making our own optics. We were just buying lenses and I knew enough optics we wanted to get a matched set for step-and-repeat cameras so Bob [Noyce] and I went to a camera store and I picked out an appropriate set of lenses that were matched. And we decided to use photo resist in order to delineate the areas Bell Labs had made some efforts there and thought this was just impossible to work with so they never pursued it although they had tried it. But we said we just have to do it and Bob and I worked with Kodak and they gave us the best resists they had at the time and we gradually had a working relationship with them that resists kept steadily improving. The problem was not putting the resist on. The problem was getting the resist off without destroying the under layers. There were a lot of technical problems and technical setbacks there but, as I said, we just said we are going to use this and we have to make it work and we did. That was true throughout. Everybody else was solving their own problems.
We had to find a metal solution for making a good contacts and Gordon [ Moore ] tells the story of working with aluminum which he said was Bob Noyce's thought and I was joking with Gordon about that and I said, I just think you were doing it alphabetically, and Gordon said, Yeah, that may be but I left out Argon . He had the wit not to do that. [Laughs]
CA: Could you talk about the lead up to the planar transistor, how that came about?
JL: The first device we made was an NPN we could make contacts to it and it was a lot easier to make. We didn't get into some of the horrible problems of boron diffusion. Jean Hoerni's bailiwick was working on the boron diffusion. Jean had been a theoretical physicist and had done work with crystallography but he turned into a pretty good experimentalist working with diffusion. I mean, he had just a charge full-steam-ahead and try it [attitude]. When he wanted to find out the limits on boron diffusion, he just k ept doing it until it blew up and behind one of the diffusion furnaces there it was a concrete wall and every once in a while the furnace would blow up and the whole works would come shooting out against the wall so you could see a little hole in the wall where Jean's tubes had blown out.
Something that's hard to explain is that it looks like and this happens the whole way across technology it looks like it's enormous insights that lead to a new invention but this is so much based on past inventions and looking at what is practical to make rather than the key technical thing.
When Bo Lojek wrote his book [History of Semiconductor Engineering], he asked me to write a little testimonial on the back this was a quotation that I had written for Bo for his book. You and I agree that while the world loves a hero, semiconductor progress depended on the efforts and ideas of a large number of people and that moving forward depended on contributions going back a few decades in some cases. Also, as is the case with most inventions, a number of people with access to the same pool of common knowledge were working independently at the same time to put it altogether and to make the necessary extensions to the existing technology and who realized that the time was right for society to accept the new concepts. That says it nearly all technical progress is a group effort and always has been and that was certainly true at Fairchild and [there were] a lot of unsung heroes involved in all of these things.
CA: I've also read that the Autonetics, that the Minuteman contractor, was a key force in getting to the planar transistor. Could you talk about that?
JL: It was key. The transistors were very expensive, difficult to use completely different design concepts than were needed with tube design and the use for transistors was completely military. The military needed small devices that could be used for airborne computers and they also had temperature constraints which meant that they had to use silicon rather than germanium and we were at the right place at the right time. We could make the transistors that were needed and so Autonetics came on for the Minuteman program which was a major project and they had very high reliability requirements, obviously, and we had separate production lines there and had sort of almost a division of Autonetics at one point for some of the things we were doing. And then we got into a problem with little metal particles bouncing around inside the package that were shorting out the devices. Finally we realized what that was but that was just the time that Jean made his first planar transistor.
From Jean's widow I've gotten some source documents to figure out what was going on and what Jean was thinking about. We started [the company] in October. In December [1957] he had a long notebook entry discussing the planar transistor so he had the idea of it but the technology wasn't ready and we were completely focused on making our first devices. He [Hoerni] was trying to make a PNP transistor whereas a group lead by Gordon was making an NPN but after a year and a half let's see, it would be early '59, Jean went back and started thinking about the planar transistor again which was going to involve a fourth mask to delineate the base area and I made that mask for him. Jean wrote up a patent application for this and showed it to Bob Noyce and Bob, after seeing this planar thing getting ready to come along, wrote down his ideas for an integrated circuit and I have that documented to the day. Jean had his idea, he talked to Bob and Bob a week later wrote down his integrated circuit thoughts.
With all of these things it wasn't, as I said earlier, an enormous leap forward in imagination. You sit down for a few minutes and you could visualize these things. The key thing is what can we make? Every day we could come up with a dozen new great ideas of things we could do but the question was 1), could we make them and 2), would the world buy them? So we were focused a lot more than a lot of the venture capital firms are today that think the world is going to pay them for being bright and having a bright idea. We learned quickly in those days the world doesn't work that way.
CA: I talked to Michael Reardon before this interview and asked him did he have any questions to ask you and he said to ask you about this fourth mask for the planar transistor and you said that you jury-rigged that and that you also witnessed the first demonstration. Could you talk about that?
JL: Well, I just made the mask. We just made an outrigger for our three-step camera. It wasn't a big problem to do it. The tolerances in those days were we were talking a thousandth of an inch or something. Now you are putting half the world inside of what was our tolerances in those days. These were just minor things and Jean [Hoerni] made the transistor in a couple weeks. Talking to Gordon Moore, Gordon said there had been some work and some jury-rigged work done on planar thoughts earlier. That's something I don't remember or know much about but the first one that was a real planar device was the one Jean made. Jean worked by himself pretty much and did it all himself and just showed us an accomplished fact and we were just startled to see the improvement in the device. The classical thinking was you had to take the oxide off because all the impurities would collect at the interface and Jean felt the opposite that it might be protection if we just left it on there.
Bell Labs had been down that road obviously before and then they didn't pursue it to any extent. Michael Riordan wrote an article a couple years ago about why Bell didn't do all this stuff first because they had all the basic technology, all the basic ideas but their focus was on building devices, mainly non-military, and building devices that were going to have widespread use in the telephone system. So a lot of great ideas just never got pursued there, even with all the stuff they were doing. Our focus was on making devices that worked and Jean's planar device came just at the time when we were really getting in trouble with the flying particles and we realized that we finally had gotten the yield up to a reasonable level on our mesa devices. The mesa technology we had developed pretty well.
To step back a second, one of the things I worked on is how you define the mesa area. You had to put little dots and I figured a scheme where you could make an array of little tiny wax dots that would line up with the transistor base which could be used to etch the patt ern. I had strange chemicals and all kinds of wax to work with but that was just an example of the sort of thing that we had to develop to make the first transistors. That technology would be replaced by the planar technology that in the long run would make it a lot easier to produce devices but on the short term the yields on the early planar devices was very low. Again, it was one of these things you had to do and so we did it. And, as you mentioned, Autonetics got involved in that. I forget the exact timing but the planar just took over the world.
CA: And the planar transistor was demonstrated on March 4, 1959 , is that correct?
JL: I've been around that with Michael Riordan [co-author of Crystal Fire]. I think it was the next week, not that it changes history that much but we had hired Ed Baldwin to be our general manager and he left with some of the people to start a competing company and the week after that was when Jean demonstrated the planar so Ed should have stuck around another week. He's going into business to make a device that we were rapidly going to outmode. But the planar worked and we had complementary NPN and PNP devices which was a great source of income. Other people had a lot of trouble making the PNPs and we could make this as a matched pair which was useful for all kinds of circuit applications.
CA: I'm just curious. Where did the planar name come from?
JL: I don't know. It wouldn't surprise me if it was Tom Bay or somebody in the sales department but we came out with brochures on it rather quickly and announced it as a product. It took about a year to get it in production but it was a tough year to develop these into high yield processes.
This question of yield is a tricky one. When you are working with a 3 or 4 percent yield, you just have mountains of unusable stuff and then your yield goes to 30 or 40 percent and all of a sudden you've got more devices than you know what to do with [laughs]. So developing this whole thing of production engineering and making reproducible devices was a big project and we had a lot of very good technical people who were working on that aspect of it.
CA: So the planar process quickly put a lot of other companies out of business I guess, like Rheem [Ed Baldwin's company] and Philco. They had mesa lines and suddenly they are obsolete.
JL: The interesting thing to me in that regard is that when there was a radically new technology, a new company came along and used it. Transitron and a few other companies were very strong in germanium transistors but didn't make the transition to silicon. The companies that were making devices by alloying went out of business and they never caught up. It still surprises me why RCA and Philco weren't the big shots in the new technology but it's just the way the world works. If you can start with a clean slate, you could focus on what you could do. You don't sit around and tell war stories about the old ways that you used to do stuff and you can see that Fairchild had the MOS technology but it took Bob and Gordon to go start Intel to focus on MOS. MOS technology in those early days was really a tough thing to deal with. The unknown problems were with surface states on the devices. And here you are trying to make a device that was based on those surface states and I remember saying at the time it was in the early Teledyne days, we were talking about MOS and I said, If they use MOS devices on an airplane, I am going to take a bus the rest of my life. [Laughs] That was my feeling and the feeling of a lot of other people then.
CA: Jay, could you tell me when you first heard about TI's integrated circuit and sort of what impact that had at Fairchild?
JL: This was early in '59 that TI started talking about that and TI had a terrible reputation for getting patents and suing the hell out of everybody else so our first thought of this was we have to show the flag too. TI the first things they were talking about were extremely elementary devices and calling them an integrated circuit was a stretch of the imagination. Really, it was individual devices -- just a transistor and a resistor essentially -- on a piece of germanium but it was something they were talking about. So I remember at Wescon in '59, it would be August of '59, Bob said, Hey, we have to show the flag here, and he and I talked and I made a little device with four individual transistors in it and resistors from a pencil but at least it showed we were in that area. And at the time Bob and I discussed this I was at loose ends. I had done my part on making the first transistors and was looking ahead for new devices. I did some work on a parametric amplifier diode for a while which looked like it was going to be a good device but I was ready to do [work on integrated circuits] and was given the mandate to start a group to do this and so I went out and hired a group of people and started in.
The main problem we saw was we knew how to make planar devices but the problem was electrically isolating them. It turned later into big patent wars on this stuff and it's interesting that the three key things you need [for an IC] were three separate patents by three separate people. Kilby [at TI] got the patent for putting various devices on one piece of material. Fairchild got the patent for interconnecting devices on the surface of the wafer from the planar device and Kurt Lehovec at Sprague got the patent for the diffused electrical isolation to isolate the devices. The isolation was the key problem we faced. The technology was not ready to do a diffused isolation. This would involve diffusing boron the whole way through the wafer which was going to be something like an 18-hour diffusion. We were with difficulty able to do a 15-minute diffusion with boron before the furnaces started sagging and getting soft so it was out of the question technically to do that.
The way the first devices were made was by taking the device, turning it, fastening it on to a plate with the operating side down, etch the whole way through the device until you came to the oxide on the back, which is only going to be a few wavelengths thick, and then fill it with some kind of a filler. So we actually developed a technique for making those devices and it involved a lot of technology. For example, how do you see the front from the back? So we developed infrared alignment devices silicon was transparent in the infrared and we could see what was on the other side. I mean, these devices never would be reliable. As I look back on it, there's no way but we did demonstrate the point that we could make integrated circuits this way. So we were proceeding down that line mainly with the efforts of Isy Haas and Lionel Kattner and some ideas on improving boron diffusion that had come from the pre-production engineering of some other materials. We said, It's worth a whack and we went ahead and did these diffusions and the first devices came out.
The first device we made with the back fill technology was made about May 1960 so we had devices coming along and made the first one with the diffused isolation in probably November, something like that. But as late as November Gordon [ Moore ], who was head of R&D I have a memo that he wrote and it said, We are going to have to make a decision; are we going to use the diffused isolation or the back and fill isolation? It still was an open question then. But the integrated circuit was not a big deal. Now it looks like we should all have been walking around in hushed tones and saying My God, we are going to change the world. It wasn't that way at all. It was just another more or less research curiosity at the time.
First of all, the Bell Labs people went through [the same challenges] and there was a famous thing that [Mervin] Kelly [of Bell Labs] said, which was the tyranny of numbers. When you try to make a lot of devices together, if you have a yield even as high as 50 percent, if you have a dozen devices on there, your yield goes to zero. He was wrong on that. We started demonstrating that if we start making these arrays, what's going to h appen? We went through and said first of all yield is defining a device that meets a lot of criteria. The device we have on this integrated circuit only has to meet one criterion. It has to be matched. That's the one thing the integrated circuit did. Th e devices are automatically matched because they are made together and had to be matched. Isy Haas took reject devices and started mocking up integrated circuits and they worked and we also realized that yield was not a random thing. There would be blotches of good areas and bad areas on a device and all we had to do was find a bunch of good areas, so we said the tyranny of numbers just doesn't apply here. There's going to be a low yield but we are going to get good devices and we started proving that yes, indeed we can make integrated circuits. There was no difference with our first problems of making our first transistor. The yields were horrible and you just by brute force figure out why are the yields so low and gradually clean up the process. We weren't terribly clean in those days. We realized that we were going to have to do a better job than we had done. Bob Noyce was a heavy smoker and he'd come around the lab smoking all the time.
So we went ahead and by the end of the year Bob Norman worked on the DCTL ideas which involved transistors and resistors, both of which we can make easily. So then we ended up with an IC and then we made the first one that had four transistors and quickly made the whole family. And I left Fairchild shortly after that, and Lionel Kattner over the next six months got the whole family into production so by the end of '61 it was an established Fairchild product. The only problem we faced was the world couldn't have cared less about the integrated circuit at that time. Transistors were specified by circuit designers who put them all under their own circuits and the last thing they wanted was somebody to sell them the complete circuit to put them out of business which was the big reason that the sales department was not keen about it. Also, it was a lot more expensive way to do things. So the only use for integrated circuits was military applications where small size was the key [requirement] and it took several years before the first inkling that this could potentially be a cheaper way of doing it. And Gordon Moore told me that when he came up with what's now called Moore 's Law, he said this was just strictly a sales tool. I was just trying to point out to people that we're greatly increasing our technology and our ability to do these things and this is going to be a cheaper way of doing it. But it took a long time.
CA: Talking about the equipment you used, did you buy any of that from outside or everything was built inside?
JL: The diffusion furnace part of it was the key item Art Lasch was involved at Fairchild making furnaces for us and he went off with our blessing and started his own company, Electroglas, getting into the diffusion equipment business. We could, of course, buy other sorts of equipment [such as] metal evaporators. Test equipment was another whole area where we had to build the equipment and we got so good at that that Fairchild set up a separate test equipment division.
I remember we needed stereo microscopes for a production line and I went to Bausch and Lomb looking at the ideal microscope for us and I said, We are going to need a few dozen of these, and they said, We only make six of them a year. So that was the state of the technology then.
We needed all sorts of things setting up a facility backing up a bit. We were starting to work with some pretty nasty chemicals -- hydrofluoric acid and things like that, and trichloroethylene. Some of these were pretty nasty customers and we had no knowledge of that and how bad these things can be and what do you do with the waste products? We were going from things that the chemical companies were used to selling just a tiny little bottle of and we wanted a car load lot of it. So we had an awful lot of stuff to do to learn how to handle these really nasty things and had them on a production line with people who didn't really appreciate how bad this stuff could be so we had to put in some pretty severe work rules that people resented. So the whole way along [there was] the development of all kinds of new technology. And in general it was just scaling up what existed instead of one little thing. We want hundreds of thousands of them. Charlie Sporck developed [the ability] to make reproducible things and here the learning curve really worked in your favor that these things started at a low yield. The yield would increase. I know the first order that Fairchild took from Detroit was an order for a vast number of transistors at a fraction of the cost that it took us to make them and Charlie said, We will be making large numbers. The costs will come down, which proved to be the case.
CA: Why don't we move on to your departure from Fairchild. Could you talk about the events that led to that and what your thinking was?
JL: My thinking there was we had made the first integrated circuit. For reasons that are pretty clear to me now this really didn't fit into the Fairchild sales programs. Fairchild was building a very successful company making transistors and diodes. Planar diodes were really a great business for Fairchild and that was, again, Jean Hoerni's thinking. So obviously you should be focused on what you are good at and here the integrated circuit was a side thing (1) you couldn't make it very well and (2) nobody wanted it except for specific military programs. It turned out the thing that made the integrated circuit take off once again was a second Minuteman program based on integrated circuits instead of the transistor. That happened several years down the road.
But the character of Fairchild had changed. When we started it was eight of us together. We each owned 10 percent of the company or some number roughly like that. We were all equals working together as a team. As the company got big and more stratified first of all Fairchild [Camera and Instrument] exercised their option to buy the company from us. That happened way before we ever thought it would. I mean, it was just a couple of years and so I realized, as did a number of other people, the company was getting stratified and I was an employee in a big company and so the group spirit was going away. Bob Noyce ended up running the place. Gordon was running the R& D and they were doing good jobs at that but it was not the way it had been. When Fairchild owned it some of the Fairchild management in the east who were running the company obviously could do what they wanted to do with it. So I was missing the excitement that I had when we started.
I also felt that integrated circuits were going to be a major thing and whether they were or not I wanted to work on them. I wanted to work with somebody that really wanted integrated circuits rather than in the Fairchild case [where] it was going to be a distraction and would not be popular with the marketing people. So I met Henry Singleton who was starting Teledyne and he wanted to build a company based on integrated circuits for advanced military systems, so this was just what I was looking for. Jean Hoerni and I were very close friends. We were mountain climbers together and Jean, more than I was, was feeling the sense that he wasn't part of a group any more and so we met Singleton and decided to go into business. And Sheldon Roberts and Gene Kleiner were both feeling disaffected the same way that I was and Jean was, so Sheldon joined us. Kleiner wanted to go off and do his own thing but he came in for the first six months or so and helped set up all our business practices and things like that, so here was half the original group left to start this and I could see here that I was in an environment where integrated circuits were going to be an essential part of the company's growth. Together with optics engineer Bob Lewis we made a step-and-repeat camera, an optics set up that was just order of magnitude better than what Fairchild had so we could make extremely tight tolerance devices and make very sophisticated devices with our step-and-repeat cameras. The big thing we missed out on was epitaxy that was coming along. We just never got into that at the right time.
CA: So as you say, four of the original founders left I guess Bob Noyce and Gordon must have not been happy.
JL: They weren't happy about it. It didn't help the morale in the company to see us all leave. We were reasonably well liked there. But I kept good relations with Fairchild it would have been suicide to compete directly head-on with Fairchild. Signetics learned to their horror later on that competing with this big gorilla was a disaster. So what we did our original mandate was to make very sophisticated devices that could be used for the Teledyne Systems Company to make very sop histicated military equipment. Henry Singleton had come from running a big division at Litton where there were inertial guidance systems and all these aspects. So here I could work with the systems guys and we made a lot of very sophisticated products. Unfortunately, this stuff was all classified and the records just don't exist. And also when the space programs came along, Teledyne was very heavy in all aspects of that. We had a number of things on the first moon shot w e made. We [Amelco] had the doppler device that told you how close you were to the moon's surface and all sorts of stuff.
CA: Just backing up a bit, the name Amelco, is there any particular story behind that?
JL: Yes. Singleton and George Kozmetsky started in business. They wanted to build a big conglomerate and I asked Henry was he trying to build another Litton? He said, Hell no. I'm going to build another GE. So that was his thinking our division was the only inside technical thing that they were developing. Eve rything else was by acquisition and one of the companies they bought was sort of a run down job shop in L.A. called Amelco that was making job shop military things. They had a big tax loss and Kozmetsky said, You name your company Amelco and then we'll be able to use these various tax [write offs] If I was picking a name, then Amelco probably would not have been the one I would have picked but we went ahead on that basis.
CA: What role did Arthur Rock play in this when you left and set up the company?
JL: Art was at that time on the board of directors of Teledyne and he had come to me as early as August of that year. And he said, The next time you are in L.A. you ought to go talk to Singleton. He's quite an impressive guy. And I never did so it was just before Christmas [1960] when the Hayden Stone people, I think it was either Art or Bud Coyle, called me and said, Hey, Henry Singleton's at the other end of the line down there waiting for your call. At least call him. So I called him and Jean Hoerni and I went down there New Year's Eve and started talking to him and we very quickly said, This fits our plans. We've got somebody that really likes the sort of things we want to do. So we joined and Henry wanted to put it in L.A. and I said, No way. There's the infrastructure in Silicon Valley, or what is now called Silicon Valley . It's so important that that's non-negotiable. We have to do it in the Bay Area. He said OK, so we started out.
The problem with Teledyne, it was under financed. Henry was working at the limit buying these companies he was helping as much as he could but we were always under financial strain. I remember one day I was having trouble meeting payrolls and I just got on the plane and flew down to Henry and said, Look, I need $100,000 right away. I've just had it. And he turned to Betty, his secretary, and mumbled something and he came back and said, Here's a check for $60,000, not $100,000. I'm giving you $60,000 because that's all the money there is in this whole goddamn company. [Laughs] So that was the shoestring we were doing it on and that came later on to haunt us because we didn't have the resources to build the mass of low cost production lines, not that that was my temperament anyhow, but we also had the role then of supplying devices for the systems and also being self-supporting by making products. Jean was very fond of field effect devices and we had a good business there so we had both internal and external sales which were sometimes a little hard to see which one was going to get the priority.
CA: I've read that because of this financial situation you went and bought equipment from outside, for example, diffusion furnaces from Electroglas? You would have preferred to build your own?
JL: Oh, no. That was always the way the whole way through. If you can buy it, buy it. I built the step-and-repeat [camera] because there was no commercial supplier for anything like that. I had a lens system that was on a bed 20 feet long with the lens about four feet in diameter. I found somebody to build this lens track for us. I said, What are your qualifications? And the guy said, I developed equipment to put asparagus in a can. If you can do that, you can do anything. [Laughs] And it proved to be right. But then anything you can you buy. Life is too short. And diffusion technology was moving pretty fast and as the years passed, it got very specialized and sophisticated and a lot of the big [equipment] companies developed out of that. Lead bonding equipment and all that sort of stuff was a real pain to try to build. You could start buying this stuff. And companies like Tektronix with specialized oscilloscopes, you could buy all that stuff.
CA: You talked earlier about not wanting to compete head-on with Fairchild because that would be suicide, but when Fairchild dramatically cut the cost of the IC, I know that had a pretty bad impact on Signetics, but how did that affect you [at Amelco]?
JL: Didn't affect us at all. The products we were making our external market was not something that was competing. I mean, Signetics and Fairchild were just head-to-head on a circuit that was a lot more useable than the DCTL we were making.
I was always intrigued with linear circuits rather than digital and one big step forward we made at Amelco was making very sophisticated operational amplifiers. That was a business that Fairchild got into a little later and that was one place where we did meet head on. But with that digital technology there was an awful lot of very specialized things we were building for various space and military programs and we were building in small quantities which is no way to run a business in the long run it's more supported research rather than mass production. Another thing we did at Amelco was develop a way of taking bits and pieces, little circuit pieces and building arrays, getting a lot of stuff packed in a small volume. We developed a lot of technology for that which was of great interest for military systems and it turned out to be long term this division is still in existence 50 years later cranking this stuff out and it's now focused mainly on medical equipment. So we did a lot of things connected with very sophisticated packaging. I remember building a little EKG device fo r the astronauts to wear in a centrifuge we had to build an EKG with a transmitter on it and that's an anecdote that I laugh at when I think back on it. We were just outside the FM band to transmit this and we pulled it down into the FM band so we could test it we were picking up a country and western music station and this was a Sunday afternoon I remember. The first song that came out over this thing when we turned it on was Nobody Knows the Troubles I've Seen. So I still laugh when I think of that. So we were building a lot of device arrays.
At Fairchild we never took any military contracts. Amelco was just the other way around so I made that choice. I remember at Fairchild some of the military people coming and saying, Why don't you ever want to take our contracts? And I said, We need the freedom and flexibility to develop our own products that we are willing to pay for. And I looked at Pacific Semiconductors that was the company that really scared me as far as the technology they had. They were supported by military contracts making very specific transistors and I thought in a big system there is going to be one of their transistors and there's going to be 50,000 of ours and which one do you work on? So at Fairchild we were successful in a hurry, especially with the PNP transistors. We didn't have competition and we could charge a lot for them so we had a lot of money floating around. We had the luxury, for example, of supporting the integrated circuit program at the time I was doing it. So finances in those early days were not the problem. That [problem] developed later on when Fairchild got into both managerial problems and problems of competition.
CA: Probably just to finish the story, how and why did you end up leaving Amelco?
JL: Jean left after a couple of years. We were both vice presidents of Teledyne so we could do pretty much what we wanted but Jean was having some difficulties with Kozmetsky. After a couple of years he wanted to leave, and not on terribly good terms, and start something else. That was just his nature. So we got Jim Battey in as general manager and I was running the company from the technical point-of-view Teledyne was growing very rapidly during this period by acquisition. When we started it was just Amelco and one other little division. When I left there were about 150 divisions. I took an interest in looking at how this whole thing was developing and with my physics background could pretty quickly understand what these people were doing in most cases and got intrigued with this big assembly of companies that was developing and started writing to each of the managers of the companies and trying to make some sense out of where this was going. George Roberts, who came in as president of Teledyne, was intrigued with the way I was approaching this and said, Why don't you come down to L.A. and be a vice president for technology and just do that full time? which I did I was there a total of 12 years I think. By then I was in my mid-40s and I said, Life is just too comfortable for me here now. I can do what I want to do. I have a plane that flies me around. I'm too young not to have any more challenges. I'm on good terms with everybody here. I like them. They like me. This is the time to quit and go off and do something else with my life. So I just left and for the next year I thought that was about the dumbest thing anybody ever did. [Laughs] The shock of no longer having a plane to fly you around and not having a [company] credit card this happens to a lot of people who change careers but that's something I did and after I settled down, I focused on other things of interest in the rest of my life.
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I like the look of the bacline quite well balanced. Fowlie is unlucky not to get a start but another impressive stint off the bench and he should be first choice come european matches.
Surprised Fai'inga isn't in the squad, did he pick up a niggle at newcastle?
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Randycurtislive necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 12 design presentati da 6 designer.
Hi my name is Randy Curtis. I am a former professional baseball athlete having played for the New York Mets, Cleveland Indians and San Diego Padres.
I currently own and operate the #1 ranked baseball Academy in the country with over 500 players in our program (ABDacademy.com). We are recognized as the premiere development and college placement program in the United States for amateur baseball student athletes.................
but I have two (2) DAUGHTERS and no sons............who I love with all my heart. Kaylee just turned 8 and Kaya just turned 4.
With that said I am putting my full attention and PASSION on them. My goal is to create the #1 ranked SOFTBALL development program in southern california.. Im taking a huge leap and have created the concept around a non profit based company where the intent is to GIVE huge value at incredible prices and offer as much FREE camps and clinics as we can. I recently just Hosted a FREE New Years Softball Camp and had 60 girls sign up in 6 days. This was my first go at it and Kaylees first event. It went awesome!
I have reached out to several large baseball and sporting corporations and they are going to participate with me as they too have the vision to give young women an opportunity to earn grants, scholarships to college through the sport of Softball.
Its an exciting project and it needs an awesome Identity (Logo)
softball players are 8 through 18.
We are a "youth" sports academy and require a sports feel is important. But I want the design to look as if we are a professional sports franchise!
We are a quality program that will be highly respected. We are a girls only program as well
Being a sports team there really is a need for several different types of logos that work with each other.
Generally there is a few looks or Logo's a sports team will have as a package:
#1 LOGO: The Main Logo. This would incorporate the Complete word "SOFTBALL MENTOR" and would possibly have some type of design associated with it. Im envisioning a logo where "Softball" is stacked above the word "Mentor" with a little design to it. This is my main logo I am looking for
TAG LINE: this can be used or not
"A Training Program Engineered For Today's New Class of Athletes"
#2 LOGO. Something for camp t-Shirts and visors where there is not a lot of room for height and would need to be thinner and longer. Maybe "Softball Mentor" as text.
Here is what we will have if this helps
We will sell T-Shirts, Sweatshirts, Visors and hats
I'm feeling the colors to be Red, Black and White
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I look forward to your design.........GO FOR IT!
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Setting new standards, this will be Aston's first carbon fiber-bodied Volante in the brand's 100-year history. It's triple-skinned fabric roof can be operated at speeds up to 30mph and takes just 14sec to fold, making it almost as fast as the car itself. As with the coupe, the Vanquish Volante takes styling cues like the elegant waist, elongated side strakes and LED rear light blades from the One-77 supercar.
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The new center console is said to be more intuitive and accessible for both driver and front seat passenger. It's another descendent of the One-77, giving the Vanquish and Volante familiar elements such as the engine start button and gear selection buttons, while featuring a new infotainment system and more user- friendly design.
Glass buttons with illumination and haptic feedback feature in the rest of the center stack's switchgear. Haptic feedback is more commonly found in touchscreen mobile phones, but Aston Martin became among the first luxury car manufacturer to use the technology in a production model when it debuted on Vanquish coupe in 2012.
Under the carbon fiber hood is the latest generation AM11 naturally aspirated 6.0-liter V12 engine that drives the rear wheels via a Touchtronic 2 six-speed automatic transmission. The 565hp peak power arrives at 6750rpm, while peak torque of 457 lb-ft is available at 5500rpm.
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The brakes features Brembo's third generation Carbon Ceramic Matrix (CCM) brakes to deliver shorter stopping distances with resistance to fade. The CCM brakes are lighter than a conventional system, further enhancing the performance of the suspension.
And let's face it, when your carbon fiber-bodied $297,995 convertible arrives early next year, you've got to hope it gets you some action...
The front brakes use 398x36mm CCM rotors and six-piston calipers from the One-77, while the rear uses 360x32mm rotors with four-piston calipers. Priced from $297,995 in the US, deliveries of the 2014 Vanquish Volante are expected to begin early next year.


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Phrases from Shakespeare's works have inspired writers of all nationalities for 400 years. There are thousands of novels, plays, biographies and other books that take their titles from phrases in Shakespeare's works. From Hardy's romantic novel Under The Greenwood Tree, to the terrifying book Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, Shakespeare's words have proved a fertile ground for those creative minds. Here are just a few of the most famous Shakespearean inspired novel titles:
Antony and Cleopatra
Joyce Carol Oates: New Heaven, New Earth
Eva Figes: Seven Ages
Francoise Sagan: Salad Days
As You Like It
Thomas Hardy: Under the Greenwood Tree
Richard Matheson: What Dreams May Come
Edith Wharton: The Glimpses of the Moon
David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest
Peter Spence: To the Manor Born
Steven Berkoff: I Am Hamlet (play)
Monica Dickens: The Winds of Heaven
Anthony Powell: Infants of the Spring
Philip K. Dick: Time Out of Joint
Nigel Balchin: Kings of Infinite Space
Isaac Asimov: The Gods Themselves
Aldous Huxley: Mortal Coils
Graham Greene: The Name of Action
Agatha Christie: The Mousetrap (play)
Georgette Heyer: No Wind of Blame
Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (play)
David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest
Julius Caesar
Frederick Forsyth: The Dogs of War
Thornton Wilder: The Ides of March
King John
Charles Dickens: Twice-Told Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Twice-Told Tales
Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of the Gilded Lily
Stella Gibbons: Cold Comfort Farm
King Lear
Pearl S. Buck: Words of Love
Honoré de Balzac: A Father's Curse and Other Stories
Francis King: Act of Darkness
Eric Linklater: Ripeness Is All
Isaac Asimov: The Gods Themselves
Peter Straub: Full Circle
Danielle Steel: Full Circle
Alistair MacLean: The Way to Dusty Death
Agatha Christie: By the Pricking of My thumbs
Ray Bradbury: Something Wicked This Way Comes
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
Terry Pratchett: Wyrd Sisters
John Wyndham: The Seeds of Time
John Steinbeck: The Moon Is Down
Bob Shaw: Dagger of the Mind
Rachel Billington: A Painted Devil
Paul Bowles: Let It Come Down
Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be?
Ellery Queen: Double, Double
Ted Hughes: Four Tales Told by an Idiot
The Merchant of Venice
Faye Kellerman: The Quality of Mercy
Erica Jong: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice
Frances Parkinson Keyes: All That Glitters
Georgette Heyer: Behold, Here's Poison
Richard II
O. Henry: Sixes and Sevens
Richard Matheson: Bid Time Return
Richard III
John Steinbeck: The Winter of Our Discontent
Romeo and Juliet
Dorothy Parker: Not So Deep As a Well
Ford Madox Ford: It Was the Nightingale
The Tempest
Robert Bloch: Such Stuff As Screams Are Made Of
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Timon of Athens
Vladimir Nabokov: Pale Fire
Truman Capote: In Cold Blood
William Trevor: Fools of Fortune
Titus Andronicus
Irwin Shaw: Gentle People
Troilus and Cressida
Isaac Asimov: The Gods Themselves
Pierre Boullé: Not the Glory
Twelfth Night
W. Somerset Maugham: Cakes and Ale
Agatha Christie: Sad Cypress
The Sonnets
H. E. Bates: The Darling Buds of May
John Mortimer: Summer's Lease
Anthony Burgess: Nothing Like the Sun
Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past
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This humorous musical comedy tells the story of Romeo and Juliet, had they survived.
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Leave her to heaven, Hamlet, was a book by Bem Ames Williams and a movie with Jeanne Tierney et al.
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Isn't Asimov's title for The Gods Themselves taken from Schiller not Shakespeare?
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Subtitled "The Gate Where Horror Begins", Deathrealm is a literary horror zine edited by Stephen Mark Rainey.
Deathrealm was published from 1987 till 1997 in Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A. Issues 1 through 17 were independently published by Rainey. After this it became a "semi-pro" zine and was published by Tal Publications for issues 18-22, and then by Malicious Press for issues 23-31.
It featured horror fiction, poetry, artwork and columns by writers such as D.F. Lewis, Roger Dale Trexler, and Karl Edward Wagner.
Contributors of writing included Kevin J. Anderson, Paul Dale Anderson, Fred Chappell, Pamela Chillemi-Yeager, Douglas Clegg, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Douglas Doelling, Colleen Drippe, Margaret Frastley, Joey Froelich, K.S. hardy, Dwight E. Humphries, Charlee Jacob, Jean Lamb, Ian McDowell, William F. Nolan (Rhodomagnetic Digest), Jeffrey Osier, Robert M. Price (Cthulhu Codex, Crypt of Cthulhu), Wilum Pugmire (Midnight Fantasies, Old Bones), William G. Raley (After Hours), William Rassmussen, Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Fantasy Macabre), Ed Shannon, L.S. Shevshenko, Steven Shrewsbury, David Starkey, Don Webb, Manly Wade Wellman, J. N. Williamson, and David Niall Wilson.
Isse # 23 featured the last known previously unpublished work of Manly Wade Wellman.
Also included were interviews with authors such as Clive Barker, Poppy Z. Brite, Stephen Jones, Elizabeth Massie, Tom Piccirilli, and F. Paul Wilson.
Contributors of art work included Richard Corben, Alan M. Clarke, Bill Gudmundson, Jeffrey Osier, Ted Piwowar, Mark Rainey, Marge Simon and Marlon West.
Covers were by Jeffrey Osier, Ian McDowell, and Mark Rainey.
Cover art on issue #27 by Ian McDowell caused that issue to be banned in Canada.


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A 2-person strategy game with 3- and 4-player variations, the rules take 2 minutes to learn, while the play variety is endless. Games average 10-20 minutes, and the wooden board and playing pieces are strikingly handsome. Easy for children to learn and play, opponents create a maze to impede but not trap their opponent. A good game is a series of strategically crucial moves, often leading to an exciting race to the finish.
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Mirko Marchesi
Year: 2005
Players: 2 - 4
Time: 10 - 20 minutes
Ages: 8 and up
Est. time to learn: Under 5 minutes
Weight: 1,025 grams
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This is one of my favorite games. I like the way complexity can arise out of simplicity. As for people looking for strategies, i have quite a lot to say so I'll only give one. on your first turn go to the right (or left, your preference) until there is one space separating you from the edge. then set up a corridor parallel to your direction of movement and next to your piece so that you are enclosed. continue this process until there is an enclosed path directly to your win. this should take up 8 turns. now you can use the rest of your quoridors and not worry about being blocked.
Quoridor is quite a complex game: Determining one's next move is nearly always non-trivial. Basic questions are unanswered, e.g., how does one defend against move copying?
I would love to see a robust treatment of Quoridor strategies. I did see one master's thesis on it but it was more a rehash of game theory than insight into Quoridor. For example, while the number of moves to win is important in the last stages, the number of possible paths a player has seems to be a key success factor (the fewer possible paths the better).
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The UK round of the award-winning Extreme Sailing Series™ now in its sixth year will be staged in Cardiff the capital of Wales between the 24-27 August, 2012. In a three-year deal, Cardiff won the bid to host the UK event of this global sailing circuit that is only one of four events with ISAF (International Sailing Federation) Special Event status, positioning the city alongside the other seven premium international sporting venues hosting an Extreme Sailing Series Act in 2012. The host venue agreement with Cardiff City is backed by a Welsh Government grant for 2012-2014.
The Extreme 40 catamarans, raced by many of the world's best sailors, will race on Cardiff Bay over four days with the event open to the public between the 25-27 August as the Extreme 40 fleet race in the circuit's action packed 'stadium' format.
Executive chairman of the organising company behind the series, Mark Turner of OC ThirdPole, said: "The circuit continues to represent perfectly the developments in the world at large, with its balance of east and west, different cultures and languages and variety of conditions.
"Year on year the commercial value to the host cities of securing this event for the host venues has steadily increased, and this is reflected in 2012 developments. A pro-active and innovative host venue is critical to the success of the event, and we are very excited in this respect by the partnership with Cardiff and the Welsh Government."
Cardiff Council's Executive Member for Sport, Culture and Leisure Cllr, Nigel Howells commented: "It's great news that Cardiff has secured the Extreme Sailing series for the next three years, as a council we will do all that we can to support the event.
"Cardiff has proved time and time again that it can play host to a variety of world class sporting events. From top class football and rugby to newer events like Extreme Sailing. Since the opening of Cardiff International White Water (CIWW) in 2010 more and more watersport events are coming to Cardiff, which is helping to attract a new audience to Cardiff and Wales."
The 2012 Extreme Sailing Series will be staged at 8 different international venues across three continents, attracting hundreds of thousands of spectators. Alongside other significant media exposure, once again a dedicated TV series will be produced and broadcast on up to 40 channels around the world, including CNBC, Bloomberg, Channel 4 (UK), Sky (UK), Al Jazeera, Fox (Latin America, Australia Middle East), ESPN, Sport+ (France), RAI (Italy).
As we enter the final countdown to the first Act in Oman, the 2012 team line-up will be revealed this coming weekend at the Dusseldorf Boat Show.
2012 Calendar & Host Venues:
Act 1 : Muscat, Oman 28th February-2nd March
Act 2 : Qingdao, China 17th-20th April*
Act 3 : Istanbul, Turkey 7th-10th June
Act 4 : Porto, Portugal 5th-8th July
Act 5: Cardiff, UK 24th-27th August
Act 6 : Trapani, Italy 13th-16th September
Act 7 : Nice, France 18th-21st October
Act 8 : Brazil 29th November-2nd December
* Due to official Chinese naval activities in the port of Qingdao, Act 2 will now be staged between 17th-20th April instead of the 19th-22nd April as previously communicated