If I remember right, Earl was ruined, could hardly get money for his daily
needs. He couldn't afford a doctor for his illness. Can't understand how
a renowned person like him could end like that.
(The way we live and treat each other rises the question if we aren't all
still troglodytes.)
Inge
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From: "Brian Ellis" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: den 8 May 2010 09:49
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [TN] Earl Moon...
> I remember him most by his website. It was full of useful info, but a
> monster! I could not get broadbad at the time and I remember it often took
> 10 minutes or more to download on DUN!
>
> He was an adept at concurrent engineering and we were in strong agreement
> over the subject, which is still, to this day, largely ignored in many
> corporations. I reminded him of the Olympic system used in shipbuilding
> and especially submarines. My father-in-law used to work for shipbuilders
> on the Tyne and he told me that the plans never showed the detailed
> routing of services (water, air, steam, electricity etc. but only the end
> points A and B. The fitters used to stand outside the gates, which were
> opened when the whistle blew at 7.00 am. They each sprinted to where they
> were working to be first, giving them the right to lay his pipe or
> whatever in a straight line. It didn't matter whether it was the
> electrician who was the fastest runner; he laid his ½" conduit in a
> straight line and the ventilation guy had to fit his 12" pipe round the
> electrical conduit. It never occurred to the naval architects or their
> draughtsmen to specify the order of pipe-laying to prevent spatial
> conflict. So it is in our industry, as this net list largely testifies.
> The design engineer, the PCB layout guy, the purchaser, the assembler, the
> solderer, the materials specifier etc. often are not inter-consulted to
> optimise the design for the best layout to suit all our departments, even
> if it sometimes means compromise. How many times have I seen a component
> costing 1 c less used (and the purchasing manager was like a Cheshire cat
> thinking how much he saved the company), where it cost $1 more in the
> finished assembly for other reasons? Legion. Earl was vehemently opposed
> to such wasteful practices (as I have been for donkey's years).
>
> I don't know how true it is, but I heard a rumour that his final years
> were spent, living like a troglodyte. He was certainly a character.
>
> Brian
>
> Steve Gregory wrote:
>> I know some of you that have been on the TechNet for a while, know of
>> Earl Moon.
>>
>> I knew him to be outspoken, and a rebel, but he knew his stuff. Tonight I
>> thought I would try and track him down to see how he was doing since we
>> had stayed in touch with each other for some years, but we had lost
>> touch, and I hadn't spoken with him for about 4-5 years.
>>
>> I learned tonight that Earl passed away about 2-years ago. He left
>> Michigan and went west to somewhere in Idaho to be in the mountains when
>> his health started failing. I was told that he knew that he didn't have
>> much time left, and wanted to be in the mountains that he loved when his
>> time came. And as I was told; Earl did what he wanted to do.
>>
>> Rest in peace Earl.
>>
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