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They had kits back in the day that you could order from Heathkit. I remember building a radio from a kit my parents ordered for me. That was when everything was tube technology. I suspect Mountainmike did something similar.How old were you when you supposedly built an oscilloscope?
Sure .. maybe later on, in his development towards a fully fledged pseudosceptic(?)They had kits back in the day that you could order from Heathkit. I remember building a radio from a kit my parents ordered for me. That was when everything was tube technology. I suspect Mountainmike did something similar.
Ancient Heathkit Oscilloscope - N6CC
With respect, I said what happened . In my case at leastThey had kits back in the day that you could order from Heathkit. I remember building a radio from a kit my parents ordered for me. That was when everything was tube technology. I suspect Mountainmike did something similar.
I guess we were all a product of our situation.I wanted to know what the stars were.
Yep had one of them as well. Later I think.Sure .. maybe later on, in his development towards a fully fledged pseudosceptic(?)
This kit was a major culprit behind a lot of what followed, in my case .. (such a dorky cover image too .. even back in those days):
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I’ve always been more interested in what could be and finding out new things than about what is already known.sci fi? Interesting.
Although I have heard Verne and HG wells inspired a few.
The clips were painful for young finger-tips but they did not deter me from finding out how the various components produced the functionality of the pre-designed circuits.Yep had one of them as well. Later I think.
those springy clips were a pain in the butt.
but by then I was more into building stuff from magazine articles.
Using tag strip and solder… valves make you think like that.
By the time they had come out I had been messing with electronics a couple of years already.The clips were painful for young finger-tips but they did not deter me from finding out how the various components produced the functionality of the pre-designed circuits.
Funny how you seem to have completely missed the whole point of those kits.
(Maybe not so funny .. more like: that is the typical take-away from all our conversations).
I’ve always been more interested in what could be and finding out new things than about what is already known.
That’s what got me into research.
Things seem optimistic to me. Medical health is moving in leaps and bounds. Common place procedures were the stuff of a madman's dream when I was a kid in the late 70s.They had iPhones on star wars And thunderbirds , one of my faves. They called them “ communicators”
It’s sad for the ones so ahead of their time. Da Vinci pictured a helicopter! It impresses me more because it hinted at how it could work, not just what the goal was.
We lived in the era of optimism. Anything was possible Or so it seemed.
Wish I had got into MRI, the math of imaging was right up my street. I Never saw the chance.Things seem optimistic to me. Medical health is moving in leaps and bounds. Common place procedures were the stuff of a madman's dream when I was a kid in the late 70s.
No but I do remember a ‘baby T-Rex’ on the news one time.Wish I had got into MRI, the math of imaging was right up my street. I Never saw the chance.
Now every year they say on storage and processing “ we’ve reached the quantum limit”
then the following year Moore’s law defies them.
Superconductors and magnets are the trend that fascinates me.
Add a few more orders of magnitude and then are possibilities for crushing matter, maybe even bending space, fusion, who knows?
do you remember tomorrows world and some of the April 1st spoofs?
like pictures of rockworms on mars!
My job (retired 6 years ago) was a Cad Manager. Making sure the 'drawing office' for whatever company I was with ran efficiently. And a big part of that was writing code for the computer aided draughting. I was good at it. And not many others were. So I was always in demand. Now AI is meant to be able to do that. Huh, I thought. It can't be that good. So I opened up Chatgpt and asked It to write some code for a relatively simple operation. Might have taken me an hour or so to do it, plus checking and testing.
It did it in a couple of seconds. Took me quite some time to check it out. It was perfect. And was better than I would have done it.
Guess I got out of the workforce just in time...
I guess I was lucky. My dad was a languages guy, but very supportive of my science obsession!I just wanted to know how things worked. When I found out that it was possible to investigate and learn by a rather simple process, I was hooked.
I was kind of a trial for my dad after that. Much later, he laughed about some of it, but it wasn't so funny to him when I was doing it.
Trying to make nitrogen triiodide? If all went well, you got an alcohol solution of triiodide that when painted on locker handles, would go off with a sharp pop and a purple cloud. More or less harmless in small amounts.Though I managed to fill the dining room with billowing clouds of purple iodine smoke once.
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