John Houbolt - nasa engineer and BRK shareholder passes away

[shalab]

Houbolt was covered in "Of permanent value, the story of Warren Buffett..." - he has passed away.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Houbolt

 

[marlinls]

The Houbolts are good friends of ours.

now just mary, i talk to her quite a bit.

we met them at the Berkshire Hathaway meeting in 1998.

He got us on the moon in 1969.

it just happened that i was in Computer Simulation in the mid sixties.

i flew the spacecraft by computer at that time to see if it would work.

i programmed differential equations into analog computers.

 

Marlin

[marlinls]

Andy Kilpatrick has a chapter in his books about John Houbolt.

[Kuhndan]

I take it that Houbolt was an early investor with Buffett?

[marlinls]

no  not an early investor  i think bought in the 90's.

[Phaceliacapital]

Marlin, you have quite the life experience it seems!

[marlinls]

yes interesting times.

i had a secret clearance for 40 years.

 

Marlin