Jack Kister

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Jack Kister

Jack Kister (born 1951) is an engineer

Engineer

An engineer is a person professionally engaged in a field of engineering. Engineers are concerned with developing economical and safe solutions to practical problems, by applying mathematics and scientific knowledge while considering technical constraints....
who worked on the TTL

TTL

The abbreviation TTL can refer to:* Transistor?transistor logic, a type of digital logic-gate circuits* Time to live for computer data* Through-the-lens metering in photography...
model for the original 68000 microprocessor

Microprocessor

A microprocessor incorporates most or all of the functions of a central processing unit on a single integrated circuit . The first microprocessors emerged in the early 1970s and were used for electronic calculators, using Binary-coded decimal arithmetic on 4-bit Word ....
at Motorola

Motorola

Motorola, Inc. is an United States, multinational, Fortune 100, telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It is a manufacturer of wireless telephone handsets, also designing and selling wireless network infrastructure equipment such as cellular transmission base stations and signal amplifiers....
. He later became manager of the group responsible for doing the development systems for the Motorola processors (called Exorcisor). In this capacity he wrote the original specification for the Versabus which was employed by the Exorcisor systems.

One of the Motorola Applications Engineers from Europe had the idea of putting the Versabus on a Euro sized PCB/connector.

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Jack Kister (born 1951) is an engineer

Engineer

TTL

Microprocessor

Motorola

VMEbus

VMEbus is a computer bus standard, originally developed for the Motorola 68000 line of Central processing unit, but later widely used for many applications and standardized by the IEC as American National Standards Institute/Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 1014-1987....
. Kister is often credited for being the inventor

Inventor

An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method, form, device or other useful means. The word inventor comes form the latin verb invenire, invent-, to find....
of VMEbus because it became an IEEE standard.

Jack eventually relocated to Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is the South Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States. The term originally referred to the region's large number of Integrated circuit innovators and manufacturers, but eventually came to refer to all the high-tech businesses in the area; it is now generally used as a metonym for the high-tech s...
with his family where he was the hardware engineering manager at Tolerant systems, the I/O

I/O

I/O may refer to:* Input/output, a system of communication for information processing systems* The input-output model, an economic model of flow prediction between sectors...
sub-systems manager at Cydrome

Cydrome

Cydrome was a computer company started in 1984 in Milpitas, California, California whose mission was to develop a numeric processor for its primary customer, Prime Computer....
, the director of engineering at Wyse Technologies for Advanced Systems where he was responsible for the Wyse 7000/Wyse 9000 systems and VP Engineering at Diamond Multimedia

Diamond Multimedia

Diamond Multimedia is a company that specializes in many forms of multimedia technology. They have produced graphics cards, motherboards, modems, sound cards and MP3 players, however the company began with the production the TrackStar a PC add-on card which emulated Apple II computers....
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