[sdiy] RE: how it all started

[Theo]

Think I had a bit older kit, AC or AF series trannies.
Metal cans with long but thin leads, hard to mount cause the springs where
much too forceful for the leads.
Heck, the spring where much to forceful period, they hurt your fingers.
Dad used to buy technical toys for me while I was a bit to young for them,
alas the '60 kit.
(He can't read yet?? no, no, look there are all these nice circuit drawings)

BTW a Picture of the "organ" in all its glory,
http://sharon.pi8zaa.ampr.org/users/pa0ib/bouwdozn/ee-re/ee8sch1/gif/zee82.j
pg

Used to have the Kosmos Chemie kit too, but was not allowed "dangerous"
chemicals.
However when 9 or 10, dad _did_ teach me how to make "schiet katoen" (easy
to make low explosive) and "Termite" (burns through steel, gets worse in
contact with water)
Afterwards he was so afraid something might go wrong, he didn't let me touch
anything remotely potentially explosive until high school.

Anyways I was more interested in using chemicals for magic tricks.
Things like, have a stuffed puppet that blushes when kissed, then wipe the
blush off with a handkerchief.
Or, drop a tiny (invisible) bit of orange stuff (think it was
amoniumchromate) on a hot surface and have _lots_ of green stuff appear from
nowhere.

Have fun.
Theo



----- Original Message -----
From: <jhaible at debitel.net>
To: Theo <t.hogers at home.nl>
Cc: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] RE: how it all started


> Zitat von Theo <t.hogers at home.nl>:
>
> > Ditto, well almost
> > I got the blue one on top of the page, there where even 3 transistors in
it!
> > And lets not forget the 8 tone "organ" schematic!!!
> > http://sharon.pi8zaa.ampr.org/users/pa0ib/bouwdozn/ee-re/index.html
>
>
> Looks familiar! The Bush had 4 (four) transistors included, all BC238.
> No pnp's - I guess the analogy in the booklet would have been too
> difficult with water also flowing upstream. (;->)
>
> I envied a friend who had the Philips system, because it could use
> normal transistors instead of mounting them to large plastic sockets.
> And it had included a BF194 as well, which helped a lot for the radio
> and HF experiments.
>
> My other big hobby at the time was chemistry (Kosmos Chemie 2000),
> which soon led into pyrotechnics and related fields. I still remember
> the day when my parent's house was filled with tear gas - the bromine
> acetone experiment was more effective than I had expected.
>
> In the end, the electronics hobby was more interesting, especially
> as it focused on music electronics.
>
> JH.
>
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