[sdiy] Re: S[DIY} frequency counter

[Tim Parkhurst]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Magnus Danielson
<magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Harry Bissell wrote:
>>
>> Make your own transistors ??? When I was a kid we had to mine copper ore
>> from the hills with our bare hands, smelt it over a charcoal fire, then
>> draw the wire out
>> with our teeth...
>
> You had a copper ore?
>
> We had to bang rocks against each other and hope some metal of any kind
> would eventually show itself.
>
>> (who remembers that thread ??? :^)
>
> (it always re-appear with some infrequent period on technical lists)
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus

You had arms to bang rocks together with? In my day, we had to evolve
arms from our fins, crawl out of the water (uphill both ways), evolve
lungs and THEN find the rocks to bang together to make the ore to make
the copper to make the wire.

You kids have it so easy.

Tim (don't even get me started on how tough it was to make our own
germanium) Servo
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