21 Feb
2020
21 Feb
'20
10:03 p.m.
> Howard Fullmer created a "beefier" power
supply, and other peripherals,
> for the Altair. Ed Roberts said that people selling aftermarket
> peripherals were "parasites", so Howard named his company "Parasitic
> Engineering"
> . . .
> He and George Morrow put out early proposals for standardizing S100.
> Later, he was chief engineer for Morrow.
On Sat, 22 Feb 2020, Smith, Wayne via cctalk wrote:
It appears that he died on 4/25/96 at age 48. His
last address was in Hayward.
THANK YOU.
Murray, are you listening?
Many GREAT people have died forgotten and unnoticed.
Howard Fullmer and George Morrow tried [admittedly not completely
unsuccessfully] to standardize the S100 bus. And he was responsible for
numerous significant innovations at Morrow Designs (once "Thinker Toys")
There were some dirty tricks played that got the enormous IRS contract
awarded to Zenith instead of Morrow, which was a large part of the death
of the company rather than it continuing to be a leader.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com