LTSpice Automation

Auburn and UofAlabama *are* the Alabama state universities (as are UVM in Vermont and UIUC in Illinois). How is it discriminatory if everyone is treated the same? Indeed that may be one of the reasons (excuses) behind the stupidity. It's only "fair" if everyone suffers together.

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Ok, I grew up with ham radio friends. If we didn't have some piece of equipment we made it (and shared). If someone became stuck on a project and needed assistance from a more senior ham a cold bottle of beer would always do the trick :-)

In the 70's when I was a teenager I had equipment of my own. Some was really old stuff that I restored. Other things were home-made, still got some of it and it still works. Mostly ham-related because that's what I needed and couldn't afford to buy:

The most difficult part was always the enclosure because all I had was hand tools and my dad let me borrow his hammer drill.

If students who can't afford on-campus dorms are forced to rent a room there they may have no choice but not to enroll at all. That is discriminatory.

I did the same in high school. One of the profs (a friend of my father's) was my mentor. No beer needed, though. None of my high school friends went into EE, though. In the late '60s and early '70s EE wasn't a popular curriculum.

I've never owned much test equipment. Until the last year, I've always worked were they had far better stuff than I could dream of buying. I don't want it now.

I worked for (their first employee, actually) HAL Electronics making electronic keyers and keyer kits when I was in high school.

I used aluminum chassis and a nibbling tool.

Ah, but if they're poor they get a full-boat scholarship, free. It's the middle class that suffers with this bullshit, as designed.

HAL was totally unaffordable for me and many others. I always marveled at their stuff but then we usually built it ourselves. I remember one guy threading enameled wired through dozens of toroids to make a poor man's matrix keyboard, cussing and all. But it worked.

A nibbling tool was really expensive in Germany because you could only buy brand name stuff. So it had to be the old file and blisters.

Hmm, now don't tell me Alabama is like here. That is one of the states on my "the grass is greener" list. Or better not?

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It's a matter of degree. All public universities (and most private) are infected with leftists. The rest of the state is pretty reasonable. Unemployment is a bitch in much of the state, though.

The point is that you *would* live on campus. Of course you can beat their prices, but that's not in their interest. The middle class are far from being a protected class. Discrimination is perfectly legal.

It is now, that and control. Thirty five years ago, it was an attempt at, well, controlling Freshmen so they didn't fail their first year on their own. Those who could live at home still had their mommy to guide them. Those that couldn't had the state.

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It was amazing stuff for its time. I built myself one of the iambic keyers. I have no idea what happened to it.

Mine wasn't cheap but I still have it. I haven't used it in years, though.

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