On Thursday 24 December 2015 12:30:08 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-12-24, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@vybenetworks.com> wrote: > > It reminds me of when one day people started claiming to be > > "building" computers and they didn't even own a soldering iron. > > And don't get me started on those people who use those "integrated > circuits" instead of transistors, relays, and tubes... > > -- > Grant
Yeah, I'm sorta old fashioned that way. I can remember when electrolytic capacitors were actually wet. And tubes had numbers like an 80, or a 46, or a 2A3 for "high" powered audio even. Power transformers that made 700 volts, center tapped of course, and because of the poor iron, weighed 25 lbs. With todays modern megnetic steels, the heating losses are 10% of that one, and it weights 6 lbs. We've come a long way in my 81 years... 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> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list