The WSJ had a very nice obit on him in the weekend issue. One interesting tidbit is that he learned electronics as a teenager by reading Terman's Radio Engineer Handbook. Wow. I have that book. It's a professional engineering textbook. I would hesitate to use it as an undergraduate college text (though it might have served in Merryman's youth, given that schools tended to teach better). I learned electronics as a teenager also, but I certainly didn't use anything as tough as Terman -- I had a book aimed at youth and graduated from there to the ARRL Radio Amateur Handbook. paul