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Springs devoted to oscilloscope technology, one of our bright, energetic
engineers, Chuck House, was advised to abandon a display monitor
he was developing. Instead he embarked on a vacation to California—
stopping along the way to show potential customers a prototype.”
House persisted with the project, eventually persuading his R&D
manager to rush the monitor into production. The product was a big
success. Packard: “Some years later, at a gathering of HP engineers,
I presented Chuck with a medal for extraordinary contempt and de-
ance beyond the normal call of