Jeff was a great engineer. We had many email exchanges over the years, I helped him with radio parts and schematics and updates for his Data IO device programmer. In classic Jeff style, he over-returned the favor... at various points giving me tubes and clocks, software updates, tons of advice and nixie wisdom.
Jeff had lots of other interests. He was an electric vehicle enthusiast. He had a world class radio collection, probably the most comprehensive and complete collection of Atwater Kent breadboards ever assembled. Several years ago his health issues contributed to his business problems, and he was forced to liquidate his collection. But he never lost his enthusiasm for nixies and nixie clocks... as recently as this spring, he was helping me with nixie clock questions. He will be missed. My condolences to his friends and family. Terry On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 10:43:38 PM UTC-5, MichaelB wrote: > This is a truly sad day. Jeff Thomas, who most of us know as the inventor > of the classic Nixisat, NixiChron, and countless other Nixie classics has > passed away this 4th of July weekend. Jeff was a tremendous guy and an > extremely intelligent guy who was always willing to help me in my Nixie > endeavors. I think I can call him a friend although we never met in > person. I will miss him and my sincere condolences go out to his family and > business associates. May his memory live on. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/df117ede-1329-4b2d-ae99-0f40751ad4b7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
