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From: bill clinton
Date: 8/8/01
Time: 10:16:12 AM
Remote Name: 32.101.162.242
From: Tom Smith
Date: 3/27/99
Time: 8:50:21 PM
Remote Name: 199.171.27.34
I'm 60 and I've been a electronic hobbyist on and off most of that time. I can remember the days of discreet components and the joy of design and modification that this allowed us.
What do we have today? Either single unit or modular design/construction. A so called electronics tech of today is, in most cases, someone who traces a signal or a power current/voltage to the faulty module and then s/he replaces it. WOW!
When I saw the 365 pf tuning caps made available from the Xtal Society I got myself 5 of them because I know you can't get things like this these days. Same is true of coils, etc.
Please don't anyone take what I've said as a personal put down of your abilities. I'm just letting off steam about what I think about this so called "progress." As I said think it stinks.
Tom