On a sunny day (Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:16:32 -0800) it happened Joerg snipped-for-privacy@analogconsultants.com wrote in snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>:
Yes, was in Boblingen Germany for training on Ampex equipment (AVR1 video recorders and ?4000 slow motion machines a couple of times, Weeks in a hotel, during the day electronics, had 12 kg books when flying back, all circuit diagrams...
You learn German and German food :-) Been there more times, later, Berlin before and after the wall fell. Half a day drive from here.
So you learn German. Spend some time in France and after a few days had no problem communicating there, they started teaching French here in kindergarten!
Belgium is more difficult indeed ;-)
Well I worked in TV, many years, media center in Hilversum, old studio Vitus Bussum.. and the old 35 mm film processing site in Bussum before that,
Did not watch a lot of TV in my free time , but in it all day...
There is a lot educational potential in TV. I remember the first TV I did see, nobody here had one but one kid had one (his parents) and for like 10 cent you could go there and watch it. I got ten cents from my mother and went, it was a physics educational program, from the same old studio Vitus where I was to later work, in black and white of course, where a guy was showing how air pressure could sort of implode a metal can (created a vacuum). So simple, I was sold on it... Started to want to design my own. No money no parts, but then later in high school when I got hold of an old TV CRT... Made the HV with an old ignition coil connected to an old tube audio amplifier that I made oscillating by feeding back to the input.. You gotta be inventive.. Was my first scope! Other audio amp for vertical deflection, all magnetic deflection of course. And transistor radio transmitters, FM, with the first transistors that could do 100 MHz,..
9 V battery and a dynamic microphone in series with it to modulate the voltage to a one transistor oscillator, the Vce change the mice caused gave enough capacitance change and so frequency change to be able to hear a clock tick via the FM radio.OK, the 'ether' stays, but the sets do fail, so do the conditions at times!! Interesting what the ether is, my idea (ATM) is that in a Le Sage model of gravity it just may be that those Le Sage particles are also carriers of EM radiation, explaining why gravity moves at C and a whole lot of other things. The Einstein parroting hard is not yet to the point where they accept that his theory is just math crap without a mechanism_... As electronics / Oh m's law is crap without electrons.
Do Not Underestimate AI
Bit of training and it will be better than you at this sort of thing!!
I was playing with one of those text to image programs yesterday (you can find free ones online) and asked 'Show me president Biden's top secret papers' (specify a bit more explicit). "Nothing you can know that is not known.... all you need is love (Beatles)" or 'all you need is AI?'
Its amazing