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From: Charlie Gibbs on 7 Mar 2010 15:16 In article <slrnhp7p86.ce0.bit-bucket(a)shell.config.com>, bit-bucket(a)config.com (Allodoxaphobia) writes: > On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:36:52 -0800, Bill Waddington wrote: > >> On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 22:28:52 +0530, Vwake <Vwake(a)nospace.net> wrote: >> >>> On Mar 6, 2010 (Sat) at 6:05pm -0600 (GMT) John Hasler wrote: >>> >>>> Michael writes: >>>> >>>>> ...and I first soldered 39 years ago. >>>> >>>> I first soldered about 55 years ago. >>> >>> Dude, how old are you? Or are you just kidding? :) >> >> Hey, show a little respect for the old guy! We youngsters should >> be respectful of our elders! >> >> It was only ~50 years ago for me... > > This all made me stop and think .... and do some arithmetic. > It was 55 years ago that I seriously got into tearing down war surplus > equipment and making 'things' suggested in The ARRL Handbook, etc. > > I still love that smell... Both the heated solder and the surplus > electronic gear. Yup, there's something about the warm cheery glow of tubes on a cold winter's night. As for soldering, probably not more than 50 years, but definitely at least 45. -- /~\ cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
From: TJ on 7 Mar 2010 17:01 On 03/07/2010 02:32 PM, Sidney Lambe wrote: > I have never seen you post on-topic before. Do you even read the > Subject lines? > > > Sid > I admit I've only been reading your stuff for a few months, but I have yet to see you exhibit a sense of humor. It must suck to be you. TJ -- 90 per cent of everything is crud. - Theodore Sturgeon
From: Chris F.A. Johnson on 7 Mar 2010 18:49 On 2010-03-07, TJ wrote: > On 03/07/2010 02:32 PM, Sidney Lambe wrote: > >> I have never seen you post on-topic before. Do you even read the >> Subject lines? >> >> >> Sid >> > I admit I've only been reading your stuff for a few months, but I have > yet to see you exhibit a sense of humor. s/of humor// -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com> Author: Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress)
From: J G Miller on 7 Mar 2010 19:50 On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:29:36 +0100, Sidney Lambe wrote: > Now I see why you are in my killfile (under many of the aliases you hide > behind while you pollute the Usenet). <confused> If the poster was in your killfile, how come you saw his posting?
From: General Schvantzkoph on 7 Mar 2010 20:34
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:16:25 -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > In article <slrnhp7p86.ce0.bit-bucket(a)shell.config.com>, > bit-bucket(a)config.com (Allodoxaphobia) writes: > >> On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:36:52 -0800, Bill Waddington wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 22:28:52 +0530, Vwake <Vwake(a)nospace.net> wrote: >>> >>>> On Mar 6, 2010 (Sat) at 6:05pm -0600 (GMT) John Hasler wrote: >>>> >>>>> Michael writes: >>>>> >>>>>> ...and I first soldered 39 years ago. >>>>> >>>>> I first soldered about 55 years ago. >>>> >>>> Dude, how old are you? Or are you just kidding? :) >>> >>> Hey, show a little respect for the old guy! We youngsters should be >>> respectful of our elders! >>> >>> It was only ~50 years ago for me... >> >> This all made me stop and think .... and do some arithmetic. It was 55 >> years ago that I seriously got into tearing down war surplus equipment >> and making 'things' suggested in The ARRL Handbook, etc. >> >> I still love that smell... Both the heated solder and the surplus >> electronic gear. > > Yup, there's something about the warm cheery glow of tubes on a cold > winter's night. I have fond memories of my Heathkit shortwave receiver, I think it was a GR64, it used 6AU5 tubes. I built it when I was 13 or 14. It's too bad that nothing like that exists today, throwing a motherboard into a chassis isn't the same thing has hand wiring a tube radio. |