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How many folk had heard of H. Boyd Woodruff, who has recently died at age 99? Yet so many across the world owe their lives to him. What a legacy!
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I've just heard that Trevor Baylis is no longer with us. RIP.  And no, this is not a *wind-up.
I always say art is pleasure, invention is treasure.
* I'm sure that Trevor wouldn't have minded that.
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I see that Trevor also worked for Pfizer...maybe a later in life Viagra beta tester ??? ;-)
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He was also a champion swimmer ... and did his National Service as a PTI in the army. 
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Here is some more about Trevor (with some nice comments, as usual). A great little video, too.
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Where are the (Analogue) Electronics heroes of today? Is it a dead art now? It's all about the software nowadays, all of the clever electronics is overshadowed by software, who designed the ps3, Xbox, ipad etc? Some fantastic bits of electronics but nobody cares so long as the software is ok. Well - we have one as a member on this website - BAM - who invented (and Philips patented) a circuit that gave better dynamic contrast on x-ray TV imaging when you had a fat patient. BAM was building mains line impedance meters long before anybody knew how to make a decent one!
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It's been two and a half years since we heard from Brian on here. Has he retired to warmer climes, I wonder?  Meanwhile ... there are "genius" ideas everywhere you look (plus a fair number of bad ones, of course).
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Nope - just hung up his meter leads
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Retreated to his Man-Shed, maybe. I'm hoping that Trevor Baylis' workshop gets preserved, by the way.Memoirs don't write themselves, you know. 
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I hear that Larry Tesler is no longer with us. Larry was famous as the "inventor" of Cut, Copy and Paste, Find and Replace and what-have-you. I'll leave anyone interested to Google* him for themselves. You could also try looking up the Gypsy text editor (word processor); or perhaps better still, check-out this .pdf. * Other internet search engines may be, and indeed are, available.
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