[BC] AM Stereo

[Rich Wood]

------ At 03:23 PM 11/23/2010, Mike McCarthy wrote: -------

>He had a partner in Motorola for a while in developing AM stereo. But his
>my-way/highway attitude eventually got him divorced from Motorola around
>the time C-Quam came out. He sued claiming patent infringement and lost
>big time a few years later. The loss of that trial drained him financially
>and put him in the funny farm where I think he remains to this day.

Where on God's earth did you get that information? I haven't talked 
to him in a while but I've visited his "funny farm" apartment in a 
rather nice building in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan. When 
was the supposed association with Motorola? When we were running Kahn 
stereo at XTRA, C-Quam didn't even exist. Being licensed in Mexico we 
could run it well before anyone in the US. He had a bitter fight with 
Motorola. I can't picture him having any association with them.

I think I'd be careful about spreading information about someone 
being institutionalized, especially such a prominent figure, until 
you're absolutely sure. Please supply whatever information you can 
about all this.

The last time I talked to him he was running Kahn Communications and 
doing some serious work for the military.

Rich