Talk:Bob Widlar

message: Didn't he also work for National Semiconductor?? I heard he was lured away from Fairchild and was offered significant shares of National stock in their early years. National took off and he made a fortune, or so I recall. Madhu 01:08, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: National Semiconductor

message: Should we add the Widlarising technique for preventing faulty components from ever being used again?--Light current 15:51, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Widlarising 

message: I would add a citation for the famous application note 'The care and feeding of the 709' if I could find it on the WWW. Does anyone know where it can be found? EEye (talk) 00:14, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Application note 

message: The book by Harrison, which is misleadingly cited as source here for that matter, doesn't actually actually mention any of these two. Lojek's book only mentions the LM100 and claims (p. 301) that it was the "world's first integrated voltage regulator". YMMV as how accurate that claim is, but the present claims aren't backed-up the source cited and are actually contradicted by one other source cited a bit later. 86.121.186.32 (talk) 21:44, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  uA732 vs LM100 

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message: This is a very interesting article. I enjoyed reading and I made several improvements, primarily trying to address the sequence of the sections which were somewhat out of order and, definitely, not in chronological order.
1. The spelling on the names of Widlar's parents should be resolved. I see some uncertainty.
2. The article states that Widlar was a co-founder of Linear Technology but the article on Linear Technology does not say the same. One of the two article must be incomplete or incorrect.
3. References 76 and 81 are permanent dead links. It would be nice to find a source to relink.
ICE77 (talk) 02:41, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I found a working link for ref 81 and fixed it.  A more complete quote from it would be "Robert Widlar, a strange, alcoholic genius of analogue-computer miniaturization". Dicklyon (talk) 03:23, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

text: This book says "In 1981 Widlar, Robert Swanson, and Robert Dobkin co-founded Linear Technology Corporation." Dicklyon (talk) 03:27, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improvements and comments