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Who Wakes the Bugler?

and I am hoping that my assertions and derivation results are challenged
by the reader. To get really radical, breadboard a real circuit! A less fun
but easier way to verify circuit behavior is via SPICE or a similar simula-
tor program. Keep in mind, while you are doing this, that most of the
very early design took place without digital computer simulators.
Frequency- and impedance-scaled simulations took place though, with
physical analog models.
I'm grateful to the many knowledgeable folks who talked with me
recently and added considerable information, both technical and histori-
cal. These included Gene Andrews, Phil Crosby, Logan Belleville, Dean
Kidd, John Kobbe, Jim Lamb, Cliff Moulton, Oscar Olson, Ron Olson,
and Richard Rhiger. If this chapter has errors, however, don't blame these
guys; any mistakes are my own.
Bob Ross and Thor Hallen have been sources of insight on these top-
ics over many years and have been ruthless in their rigorous analyses,
helping me in my work immensely.
Finally, I leave you with my mother's and Socrates' advice,
"Moderation in all things." Might I add, "Just do it!" If these Tek guys
had waited for proper models of all known effects and proper theory
before doing something, we would still be waiting. Everything can be
tidied up in hindsight but, in fact, the real circuits in the real products are
often more complicated than our simple schematics and were realized by
a lot of theory, intuition, and especially smart, hard, and sometimes long
work. I am proud of all of this heritage and the small part I played in it.

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