James Pastoriza designed several circuits at Philbrick. After leaving Philbrick in the early sixties, he founded Pastoriza Electronics, which specialized in Analog-to-Digital converters. One famous converter from his product line was the ADC-12U, which converted 12bits from an Analog input voltage to an output digital code in 10us.

In 1969, Analog Devices bought out Pastoriza Electronics and started it's march to dominate the ADC industry.

This reference material was extracted from a chapter about ADC history at the Analog Devices site.

Leigh Seddon Vice President of engineering at www.solar-works.com, is a son of the recently deceased Philbrick Alumnus Bruce Seddon, and brought to my attention Pastoriza's tenure at Philbrick, which was contemporary with Bruce and Bob Pease. (added 6-29-8)