Actually, I had quite a collection of old electronic and telegraph instruments, gotten from a local junkyard of which our landlord was the owner. Alas, my small collection was junked while I was in the Army. My grandmother had my stuff and when she moved, instead of asking me to take it back, sent it all -- including my first radio, a homemade two-tube receiver -- to the trash.
I'd imagine many of us have such memories from our youth. People who do things they are interested in, last longer at them. Cortland ====================== Original Message Follows ==================== Reply-To: <mertino...@skyskan.com> From: "Michael Mertinooke" <mertino...@skyskan.com> Subject: RE: we need some information List-Post: emc-pstc@listserv.ieee.org Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:04:50 -0500 >Heh! Used a CRT focussing coil with a Lionel train transformer, actually. >By quickly making and breaking the connections I could time the >current so it would accelerate the ball bearing smartly. And where did we get our CRT focusing coil? Hmm? You must have been SOME kid to raise! ====================== End of Original Message ===================== ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Jim Bacher: jim_bac...@mail.monarch.com Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org