> On Mar 11, 2019, at 1:13 PM, Robert Feldman via cctalk
> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 17:18:26 -0400
>> From: Murray McCullough <c.murray.mccullo...@gmail.com>
>
>
>> Back in 1965 Jack Kilby, Jerry Merryman and James Van Tassel at texas
>> Instruments
>
> Merryman died on February 27.
>
> From the New York Times (March 7, 2019):
> Jerry Merryman, Co-Inventor of the Pocket Calculator, Dies at 86
> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/obituaries/jerry-merryman-dead.html
>
> Bob
The WSJ had a very nice obit on him in the weekend issue. One interesting
tidbit is that he learned electronics as a teenager by reading Terman's Radio
Engineer Handbook. Wow.
I have that book. It's a professional engineering textbook. I would hesitate
to use it as an undergraduate college text (though it might have served in
Merryman's youth, given that schools tended to teach better). I learned
electronics as a teenager also, but I certainly didn't use anything as tough as
Terman -- I had a book aimed at youth and graduated from there to the ARRL
Radio Amateur Handbook.
paul
