Today, I had the misfortune

Hmm, good point, would not want any collateral damage to innocent parties.

Do you think I am safe to use

just_give_me_the snipped-for-privacy@you.useless.cretins ?

That sounds perfect to me. It sends a message with no collateral damage.

I occasionally use a contact address at the company with the form. The possible downside is they will decide the problem is that the e-mail address's are available not that they are blocking access to gather address's themselves.

Robert

I often fill in the address as "dont be nosey street"

tim

On those sites where I might want to hear from them, I assign them a site-specific E-mail address... snipped-for-privacy@my.address.forward.com

That way I can both control their access to me and stomp them if they sell my address ;-)

...Jim Thompson

For phone numbers, I tend to supply (207) 555-1212, which is the information number for the Maine area code here in the US and Canada. It involves a charge. Always valid.

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

How about snipped-for-privacy@TheGatesTo.Hell

(Say it aloud).

The technical documents for email reccomend .invalid on the end of fictional, or munged, email addresses.

example.com is a domain that belongs to noone, and never will.

However, if you want to make a statement; putting their own sales, support, or postmaster, email address wouldbe an option :-)

Bye. Jasen

How often do idiots sell your address? Do you tell everybody and/or add them to your s*it-list on a web page when that happens?

Sell? Only once.

Load you up with advertising crap... all the time. So I just delete the address until when I need it again ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Could be part of TI or Arrow offices in Bedford...

Well those who remember the British black and white movies, before dialing codes will remember 1212 as in 'Whitehall 1212' being the number for Scotland Yard...

The one with a kind of tag board with sping loaded clips and 3 germanium transistors ?

I had one of those for Xmas once too.

Graham

I started off with those - a long time ago now!

Cheers

PeteS

Heh - me too. In my case it was a EE1050 (IIRC) base kit, then a pair of add-on kits (EE1051/2? can't remember). This was around '67-'69. The transistors were silicon, though (BC148 etc, IIRC). One or two of them had a very cool heatsink - the transistors were mounted on square bases with four holes, and the heatsink was a piece of folded aluminium that looked (to my young mind) like some kind of space radar...

I had huge fun with those kits. And, like Joerg, it's the reason I have this career, for better or worse ;).

Just googled: found a bunch of links, including:

Steve

Hello Steve,

Then you must be younger than I am. Mine contained two AC127 and there was one steel heat sink in the kit that could be slipped onto one of them by bending it open a bit. It snugged back on like a spring and looked like it gave the AC127 wings. Like with aircraft you could select "high wing" or "low wing". I preferred low wing.

There was an AF126 with very fragile wires. Had to be treated like a jewel because it cost >$3 at the TV repair places. This was my opening crescendo into the world of RF. You could (almost) get it into the VHF range. But then I discovered that tubes from the UHF tuners of discarded TV sets were the bettter deal, a.k.a. free. Of course, these needed a very different voltage level on the plates...

This was the one I had:

At the top of the picture below you can see what the springboard of my EE20 looked like. Each experiment had a template that went under the springs so you could see where which part was to go:

I wonder if Europe still has those 4.5V batteries. Back in them good old days they were the best deal in terms of Watt-Hours versus Deutschmarks. But they were also notorious for nasty leaks.

Wahay! Finally! ;)

With the EE-1050 etc, the transistors were premounted - the BC148 etc had very short pins...

Yes, I see your transistors. The template idea was carried through to the later kits.

Heh - they were (are?) excellent for lighting up bulbs with no wiring - one could just wedge a bulb between the two prongs...

Steve

In the UK they were known as 'flat' batteries - not because they held little energy but because they were physically flat and suitable for slim torches.

Steve was right about the spring contacts though, many a battery was sacrificed because little care was taken in keeping them separate and after a few minutes of touching they really were flat! I think their part# was 1216 or maybe 1219.

-- Graham W

Hello Graham, Hello Steve,

That's what the "fancy" kits had in my days, made by Kosmos. I never warmed up to that idea because I wanted to work with "real" parts. Shortly thereafter, I believe at the crisp age of about 10, I scraped all my allowance money and bought a solder iron and some solder. In hindsight a rather dangerous thing, no grounded plug and all. The solder was more for plumbing work but what did I know? I guess my parents where unaware of this exercise and how dangerous it could be but in the end it helped me in learing how to solder. Don't blame my parents, I hadn't told them about the solder iron purchase.

The really nasty surprise came when you did that but didn't discover it until weeks or months later. By then many of these had oozed all over the place.

That's the one !

I can't even remember using that battery now.

If you'd asked I'd have said it used a 6V 'lantern' battery.

Graham