[sdiy] Way OT - Who's the oldest?

[John Mahoney]

Oren Leavitt wrote:

>I am 44 - I have had the electronics hobby since the age of 8.

The mean age here seems to be forty-something. I'm 46. My interest in 
electronics started when I got a Radio Shack 100-in-1 kit when I was 
somewhere around 10 years old. The first and only PCB that I etched 
myself was for a Craig Anderton preamp/EQ project in Guitar Player 
magazine. I never finished it because I realized that one of the caps 
was wrong, set it aside, then got a Strat that I wasn't about to hack up.

My interest in sound mangling started even earlier. We had a little 
Emenee reed organ (a kid's toy, just like the Magnus ones) and I'd do 
things like hold down keys or chord buttons while switching the unit 
on or off -- I was doing stuff like fade-ins and fade-outs. I was 
also big on playing records at the wrong speed (intentionally), 
especially the 16 RPM speed that was basically half of 33-1/3.

John


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