On Monday 13 November 2017 13:44:57 andy pugh wrote: > On 13 November 2017 at 17:26, Przemek Klosowski > > <przemek.klosow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Who would steal a coffee can with capacitors? > > Another electronics hobbyist faced with a 150 mile drive to the > nearest vendor?
The only other person I can think of ran a radio shack dealer store, not very successfully, 30 years ago. But he got into a local well service shop, got hisself a certificate to handle highly radioactive stuff like the alpha sources they used downhole to survey by reflection, what was at or near the bottom of a 3k foot deep hole. But he parlayed that into a job at the naval yards in Florida, around 25 years ago. Even if back in this neck of the woods, I don't think he could find my place, let alone know I had such a stash. I tried to teach him some programming of the RCA-1802 since thats capable of working as a reflection data particle processor in the presence of several seiverts of radiation 4" away. Thats the cpu used in much of our spacecraft because the outer space ambient radiation can hammer a modern cpu back into the sand it was made of, particularly when our star gets pissed and points a solar storm at us. We should be thankfull we have a magnetic field that steers all that crap into the polar icecaps. His leaving the company he was working for locally almost put them out of business because the license to have that stuff left with him and they couldn't find a replacement. He tried to hire me to come to Fl. and work under him, but lost interest very quickly when I named my asking price. Which I of course inflated a bit since I'd "found my niche" at the tv station and was in no mood to leave for some military pie in the sky. I was well paid, and figured that I was where I was going to stay till? or was past time to retire, which I finally did coming up on my 67th. Then I spent about 10% of my time out putting out engineering fires at other properties Russ owned for the next 10 years. But now I'm down to just one customer, the local radio station. I have to go put him back on the air when the cash cow chokes, 2, maybe 3 times a year. Other than the tv guys, I'm pretty much it around this neck of the woods, everyone else has expired of old age or cancer and no one wants to do this sort of thing. Our schools have IMO beat the natural curiosity about such scientific/physics related things out of the students who all want to be stock brokers driving Lambo's. We who can actually fix things like a transmitter of any power level are a dying breed, and it will be my turn at some point since I'm 83, diabetic, arthritic and who knows what else. I've had a hell of a ride, but... Other than losing the first wife of 10 years to a stroke at 34 yo back in '68, and one by one the 3 children she gave me, I wouldn't change much. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
