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We'd just tease girls. More fun and less dangerous.

You could build all sorts of cool stuff from an old tube TV set. There's not a lot you can do now with an LCD TV or a busted cell phone.

My experience wasn't that much different just the products were somewhat more recent. Guitar pedals, 8 bit video game systems (the last of the era when they still used DIP ICs and had faults which could be diagnosed and repaired by the equipment available to a teenager circa early 1990s.)

The way some kids in their early 20s I know who are getting into electronics seem to be coming at it is thru automotive work. They also disassemble and repair/re-purpose/hack mobile phones just fine they don't let small component size stop 'em, hot air rework stations and high-quality digital microscopes never cheaper.

My Rigol DSO is a miracle compared to the analog scopes we had in college just 20 years ago, and this Lenovo laptop is a wonder compared to the Mac Quadras students were trying to use to do video editing in 1997.

I think the first "mod" I ever did was a composite video output installed on a machine which didn't come with one, there was a short period of time after 1990 but before eBay and Amazon when aftermarket RF modulators were rather uncommon in stores and expensive

I just like that tube. It glows in the dark.

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We make gear that interfaces to LVDTs and synchros and resolvers, so we buy the gadgets surplus.

We're doing a benchtop unit now too. It's fun to work with things that move.

It was PDA electrostatic, sort of weird for a radar display.

The center electrode tubes used the center electrode for radial deflection of a circular sweep, like for radar altimeters.

The speaker coil/cap thing was called a wobulator.

It took me years to collect the whole set. Some of it is useful today. All of it is amazing... the birth of modern electronics.

They would've liked to build a wall to keep the Irish out I'm sure but constructing walls on the seabed of the North Atlantic was beyond the engineering capabilities of the time.

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A curious delusion about what socialists might want.

I had though better of Phil Hobbs, but he may be reflecting the curious Ame rican delusion that socialism can be equated with communism - which stopped being true in 1871 when the international socialist movement ejected Karl Marx and his proto-communists on the grounds that their ideas about the "le ading role of the party" were undemocratic and likely to lead to worse tyra nnies that the ones that were currently being campaigned against.

Scandinavia and other places in norther Europe where democratic socialism i s influential don't seem to have problems with minority bashing. The immigr ant minorities that have moved there recently aren't as well behaved, but e ducation takes time, even when it is well-funded right across the country ( unlike the American school district scheme).

Google, there's no shortage of accounts & explanations.

Chaff was used of course, but electronics are more the way forward.

NT

there wasn't much pocket money going around then though. Kids get as much in a week as I got in a year.

NT

anything with through hole parts can make a ton of stuff. VCRs are crammed with parts.

NT

But none than NT can find. A slightly more charitable attitude would attrib ute his incapacity to support his claims to pure laziness, or perhaps the k ind of stupidity that doesn't see the point of providing that kind of back- up information, but NT is definitely part of the undeserving poor around he re.

Or would have been, if anybody had found anything that worked at the time.

SNIP

Reminds me of the phone hack in the uk in the late 90's early 00's.... a PAYG phone manufacturer 'design' error stored the phone credit on an onboard EEPROM... a simple remove,reprogram, replace and job done. A lot of money was lost by service providers- BT as I remember.

"Tom Del Rosso" wrote in news:q0877n$bah$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

Yesterday I said that it would not surpise me if Trump didn't pay the asshole who shot the cop just so he could add yet another "incident" to his list of "see" events to push his agenda with.

Trump is a jerk. The only good thing you can say about him is that he's usually right.

No need. We all have TVs now.

Rick C.

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Yeah, at the moment he is busy being right about shutting down the government.

Rick C.

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Maybe someday Americans will develop enough self-esteem to decide they deserve a President who's both usually right and not a jerk.

Well, I won't hold my breath.

Given the choice, I'll take right.

That's what I tell American women on first dates "Yeah I'm a jerk and you're going to be paying for dinner - but I'm usually right."

Works great