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There is a closed-system purity to logic design that appeals to some minds. And there's the messy, unstructured fuzziness of analog design that appeals to others (like mine.) If I program for more than a couple of weeks at a time, I get depressed. I can design circuits forever.

John

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Sure. Mike Terrell s a malignant idiot, and seems happy to contemplate the demise of 150,000 people in Nijmegen in order to be rid of me. If you find this to be a respectable point of view - as you seem to - your values have to be pretty twisted.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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It's a restatement of the original point I was making, rather than any kind of attempt to lumber you with a new and even more implausible proposition.

You can make any kind of claim you like about the quality of your sense of humour, but - sadly for your claim to competence - you've been posting tedious predantry here for years, and the only comedy involved has been your delusion that you know what you are talking about.

Illustrating that you don't have a clue what a balanced sentence might be, and don't have the wit to find out.

-- Bill Sloman. Nijmegen

Sophia Electronica exists, but has yet to attract a customer - which isn't all that surprising, since I registered the business so that I could buy electronic components from Farnell in the Netherlands, for a project that never got off the ground.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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My wife has been after me to do that for years. It does require inventing a product that could be developed without investing more capital than we've got, which could be sold to a significant number of customers without requring me to set up some kind of distribution network.

Since most of the work I've done has been on complex and expensive scientific instruments sold into the international market in small qunatities, my inspirations haven't yet met these criteria.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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We expect to move back to Australia full-time in a couple of years - we already spend three months of every year there, which (I've been told) is too short a period to make me employable even on short term projects. The timing is set by the pension provisions on my wife's current job - a few extra years in the Netherlands provides a useful boost to the pension from her current job.

He does know a little about the sort of gear that I've worked on. Any kind of detailed CV would give the game away.

The combination of flow measurement, phased array ultrasound and electron microscopes is fairly unusual.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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I read them when I was lot younger than I am now. That you have only just got around to reading the classics doesn't really surprise me - you show all the other signs of a single-track education (excessively concentrated on electronics). I read Dickens (and Thomas Love Peacock) when I was running the Melbourne University computer (they only had one back then) at four in the morning - bitter experience demonstrated that I couldn't debug my programs at that time of night, so I read while my program ran, and when home when it has finished (or crashed, as it sometimes did).

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Once again, Slowit Sloman makes an 'ASH' of himself! ;-)

Do you have a drain in the floor of your office, so you can hose it down afterwards?

Not me. I prefer an oral surgeon who knows what they are doing. Twice, I've had dentists who couldn't remove a damaged tooth and had to wait days to see an oral surgeon. :(

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Mike Terrell's grasp of reality is limited to seeing what he wants to see. His grip of morality is illustrated by his express desire that a city of 150,000 people should be inundated in volcanic ash because he doesn't appreciate the comments he gets from one of the residents.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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I have not "just got around" to reading great (and even silly) literature. I transitioned from si-fi to more serious stuff in my 20s. I like to reread the good stuff, often many times, because really great writing is like really great food, worth repeating at decent intervals.

You keep making up stuff you'd like to be true, but isn't. That sort of disconnect is very bad for electronic design.

There's something slow, even ponderous, about Dickens that puts me off. He's not worth rereading often. I think his stuff was a social revelation in his time but isn't universal enough to wear well. He dealt with circumstances, the outer life, more than motivations, the inner life.

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You're lucky. My boss had a couple of dentists, here, try to save a tooth, only to have to go to a surgeon to have it removed (and an implant inserted). Each one charged like they saved the tooth.

I think it's prep for dental surgery.

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That is precisely the market where a precision design could be sold in modest quantities for big bucks, and where potential users are easy to find. Scientific instruments often have horrible electronics. If you can improve the s/n of a million dollar instrument by, say, 30 dB, it will attract attention. And orders.

It takes very little capital to develop a small electronic gadget these days. Test equipment, exotic parts, uP development boards, multilayer pc boards... all are amazingly cheap and plentiful nowadays. A decent oscilloscope used to cost as much as a new car; no longer. This is a golden age in which one person can design important electronics.

John