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[Glen Zook]

Remember that Art insisted that every little
modification that he came up with had to be put in
every radio before it shipped to the customer. 
Unfortunately, when he got involved basically nothing
ever got shipped because he was always making changes
and, of course, the customer never paid anything.

At least here in the Richardson plant every department
had a "project" just for Art's attention.  There was
never any intention of shipping anything having to do
with the project but by getting Art interested then
production could continue on the "real" radios and
they could be shipped.  Then the customer would pay
the bill and accounting was happy.

Building 401 was the main engineering building here in
Richardson.  Building 402 was where Process Division
(which I was with) had the circuit board assembly
line, photographic shop, and on the mezzanine most of
the management although Bill Shockley (one of the 2
Division Directors that we had) was over in Building
401.

Glen, K9STH


--- "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson"
<geraldj at storm.weather.net> wrote:

Art did inspire projects, but he kept his fingers in
every project in the place. Like I have done, he
"mother henned" the engineers to death, second
guessing and approving or disapproving of every design
(seemed like to the details of the choice of
resistors, but his reviews weren't that close, but did
include the choice of tube vendors and sometimes
circuits). With 20,000 employees he still tried to run
the place as if it was still him and a helper in his
garage the way it was more than 30 years before.

Glen, K9STH

Website:  http://k9sth.com


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