Ralph Ungermann

thumb|right|I like to pioneer things, create a space that does not exist. Ralph Kelley Ungermann (20 January 1942 – 2 June 2015) was an American engineer and entrepreneur. He is best known for founding Zilog with Federico Faggin and Ungermann-Bass with Charlie Bass. Due to his work at U-B, he was considered to be a founding father of the data communications industry.https://historyofcomputercommunications.info/section/7.1/minicomputers,-distributed-data-processing-and-microprocessors/ Minicomputers, Distributed Data Processing and Microprocessors | History of Computer Communications https://historyofcomputercommunications.info/section/9.11/ralph-ungermann-and-charlie-bass-and-the-founding-of-ungermann-bass/ Ralph Ungermann and Charlie Bass and the Founding of Ungermann-Bass | History of Computer Communications Quotes Nothing in moderation, everything to excess.https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/ralph-ungermann-obituary?id=8877512 I like to pioneer things, create a space that does not exist. If you can imagine it, you can create it. It is much more fun and challenging to create an industry, than to follow someone elsehttps://www.geni.com/people/Ralph-Ungermann/6000000178787005858 Small mistakes kill big companies.https://historyofcomputercommunications.info/interviews/ralph-ungermann/ So what? You keep going. We also made, we took a gamble on broadband, made a go. We made a gamble on being able to provide an IBM compatible Token Ring, and we're doing that, and we picked MAP, and we missed. So we picked three out of four, and that hurts, but so what? We're going to keep going.https://historyofcomputercommunications.info/interviews/ralph-ungermann/ References External links Category:1942 births Category:2015 deaths Category:Engineers from the United States Category:Businesspeople from the United States