Analog Devices ==> downhill

Wow, their support has gotten bad lately. The people you can contact don't know much about the parts, and the web site is half broken.

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Their general cheap-ass behavior would seem to indicate financial problems.... maybe they've gone the way of Maxim ?:-) ...Jim Thompson

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Dang I hope not. I just started using the AD845. Looks like a nice output drive.

George H.

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I don't think I have ever had problem with AD device. Some of their parts are absolutely fabulous. I am using ADF4360 synthesizer chip right now. Absolutely incredible part

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brent

Their new video parts are amazing stuff too.

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krw

That'd be sad. If someone has the intestinal fortitude to read some of their communiques from top brass, they can look for self-congratulatory verbiage -- any time the CEO starts bragging about a company doing well when it's really getting crappy you know that things will slide downhill fast.

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When they got rid of Bob Pease the writing was on the wall. He was killed in a car wreck a short time later. Personally, considering the fact that he actually wrote a book on automotive safety, and was en route to or from (Linear Tech) Jim Williams' funeral, I suspect it may have been suicide by crash.

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rrusston

Bob Pease had been with with National Semiconductor, not Analog Devices, and he was let go in 2009, two years before he died. two years isn't any kind of "short time".

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He was driving a 1969 Volkwagen Beetle - which may count as a trifle suicidal - when he he died but he'd been doing it for years.

Ralph Nader's "Unsafe at Any Speed" in 1965 was rude about the Beetle's tendency to roll, but by 1969 I think that Volkswagen had got around to taming the swing-axle suspension.

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It was the Chevy corvair, not the VW beetle.

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Oppie

Right, in fact Nader got a lot of flack for whining about the Covair and not the Bug, which had a very similar rear suspension and handling (problems).

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krw
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And I bet he has nothing at all to say about the Smart Car, which 40 some years later is a mega step backward ... on the safety front. But then again, with liberals, it never really is about safety, or global warming , or protecting wildlife (windmills), or environmental hazards ( mercury in the new light bulbs). It is first and always about advancing socialism.

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Nader paid a lot more attention to the Chevy Corvair, but from what I recall of the book, the Volkswagen Beetle got enough space to make it clear that it too was prone to flipping over more often than most cars. It's a long time since I read the book - some forty-odd years - so I could be giving Nader credit for stuff that came out in reactions to the book.

Nader certainly disliked it in 1971

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Evidence? Nader was born in 1934, which makes him 77 now. Maybe he figures that he had his fun with the Corvair and someone else can expose the Smart Car (if there is anything wrong with it to expose).

If you knew what you were talking about, you'd be aware that liberalism and socialism are two rather different political movements. Americans are so far to the right that they see liberals as left-wing, and can't be bothered to distinguish them from socialists who are even further to the left.

In the Netherlands, the "liberal" party - the VVD - (Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie, or People's Party for Freedom and Democracy) is the major right-wing party, and their leader is currently the Dutch Prime Minister.

Since you don't actually know the difference between a socialist and a liberal, we can guess that your opinions about what they are "really about" aren't all too reliable either.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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Bill Sloman

Just check their stock value, it's something worth ~ $12 B ($40 x

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halong

Yep. My '61 Dauphine had leather straps to limit the axle travel. Still didn't stop the occasional horizontal lane change when you took a curve too fast :-( ...Jim Thompson

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Those things look like they'll fall over forwards under braking ;-)

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Fred Abse

There's one of those in the parking lot in front of my apartment. It looks like it's going to fall on its nose, parked. It's as ugly as the "Cube".

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krw

That sounds very odd. Porsche's first 911 sports car was based on the VW beetle chassis. They still use some of the concepts in today's cars (like having the engine in the booth).

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Nico Coesel

The swing-axles suspension is easy enough to tame, but that adds a couple of extra components and raises the cost of building the car.The Porsche 911 sold into a less price-conscious market than the Volkswagen Beetle.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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Bill Sloman

Early 911's were famous for holding on like glue in a turn, then breaking away without warning. Lots of Mario Andretti wannabees died in 911's, oversteering their way into Heaven.

The other killer was the 914, especially the 914/6, which would wheelie in 1st or 2nd gear. There are very few still around.

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