21 Mar
2014
21 Mar
'14
8:47 p.m.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 7:04 PM, jim s <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:
Older systems were designed, and at times it
wasn't bean counters, but
engineers with wire clippers who attacked them.
Earl Muntz is a classic example. He made three total restarts until he
got a TV chassis that was as cheap as he wanted and the most of the
techniques were just leaving out parts and seeing how well it worked.
Call Muntz an engineer if you want, but that technique was bean-counting,
not engineering.