 The great Bob Pease has died...
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Nicko
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Tue Jun 21 2011, 04:33AM
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The great National chip engineer and Electronic Design columnist crashed his '69 VW Beetle while driving home from the funeral of Jim Williams, another great chip engineer.
Details at ED, /. and some other places.
Many years ago I had the pleasure of speaking to Jim Williams - extraordinarily helpful considering I was just some bloke having a problem with one of his designs - never spoke to Bob though.
Read Bob Pease's articles for years, and have two of his books. Ironically, the last book he wrote was entitled "How to Drive into Accidents - And How Not to" - "An idiosyncratic, entertaining, and insightful book on safe driving techniques, for novices and experienced drivers alike".
 - note the cover picture includes a VW Beetle - he was driving his one when he died.
Allegedly he wasn't wearing a seat belt and was driving one handed when he crashed on a corner and hit a tree - he may have suffered a heart attack first.
Great loss.
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