Were the Good Old Days all that good?

[Tony Clark]

> 	> Since I didn't have the correct ciruits, substitutes
> 	> were made (I only had maye 10 different
> 	> resistor values). 
> 
> Exactly !
> 
> I remember I ordered a bag of 1000 unsorted resistors from a company
> called Pollin Electronik (German list members may remember them),
> and then I would use whatever values I'd find in this surprise package.
> Open the bag, spread it out on the floor, select the resistors in groups.
> I had one drawer for each *decade*, i.e. one for 100R to 1k,
> one for 1k to 10k and so on. Hey what do you call that - "E1 series" ??

   Heh, my first foray into electronics was when this old laser engineer 
(reduced to fixing church organs) decided to get rid of a bunch of junk 
he had in storage and gave it all to me!  There was bags and boxes of 
stuff, plus some old Tex scopes that didn't work.  Me, I ripped all the 
parts I could out of everything he gave me, went to Radio Shack to buy a 
bunch of books with schematics, and then tried (in vain) to make the 
circuits in there (without having _a single_ clue as to how the circuit 
worked)!
   Needless to say it was a grand failure!  But wow, now look at me, 
buying and building SMT designs!  ;)  Truly this is the golden age...

   Tony

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