I have to switch to iPhone

[Dublin ohio]

Even though everyone knew I was bound for college my math scores were high enough that they let me take vocational electronics in high school where we repaired TVs because that's where my interest lay at the time. I was into Heathkit in high school and built one of their integrated amps as a freshman and then built a Heathkit dual processor 8085/8088 CPM/MS-DOS computer during my first years in college. During my first semester in college I decided I needed a lab in my apartment and pretty soon I had a nice one with an 20 MHz oscilloscope, function generator, frequency counter, two laboratory grade power supplies, bread boarding equipment and all the various gadgets that go along with that stuff. The nuclear weapons plant here holds auctions periodically where you can go out and purchase their surplus laboratory equipment and that's where I scored a bunch of it. I eventually got tired of moving that stuff around when I got back from overseas and threw it all away in a fit of shortsightedness. That computer would be worth some money now as a collectors item.

Most Heathkits when I started were still using tubes. They were just transitioning to solid state (transistors).

 

[Dublin ohio]

I started tinkering with electronics at an early age. Probably got some lead poisoning from soldering and desoldering things. You don't know what you don't know, Yoda.

I still have this beast somewhere in the basement

 

[Mike Ault]

That explains a lot.

As that slight was issued by a person who cannot or will not put two and two together, I am not offended.

 

[Mike Ault]

Most Heathkits when I started were still using tubes. They were just transitioning to solid state (transistors).

Yes, I was instructed on tube theory for 2 years in high school. We were practically slave labor in that course, people would donate old TVs to us that couldn't be fixed so we would take all the tubes out, run them through the tester, and then start desoldering all the salvageable capacitors and transformers. Great fun to charge those capacitors up and then toss them to the unlucky student who had the man the equipment closet that day. It's just human nature to try and catch something that's tossed to you.

 

[Mike Ault]

I still have this beast somewhere in the basement

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An oldie but a goodie!

 

[Dublin ohio]

Yes, I was instructed on tube theory for 2 years in high school. We were practically slave labor in that course, people would donate old TVs to us that couldn't be fixed so we would take all the tubes out, run them through the tester, and then start desoldering all the salvageable capacitors and transformers. Great fun to charge those capacitors up and then toss them to the unlucky student who had the man the equipment closet that day. It's just human instinct to try and catch something that's tossed to you.

I did that for parts of my own. Our electronics class in high school was new and just starting. I had more equipment than the school

 

[cashcatz]

I have a separate subscription for my car wifi. I just log onto my satellite tv provider or even Amazon prime video. I prefer to use my tablet for viewing purposes

Why? Can't you just cast your cellular data from your phone?

 

[Surf Cat]

Wow....Ault & Dublin sound really advanced.

I used to work at a place called Stats Floral Supply as a teenager for a few years in a row during the Christmas season. At the Christmas light strand repair center, we would try to hold on to these two leads and see who could take the most voltage.....