Re: Did some of us start this way? :)

Dave db5151@xxxxxxxxxxx posted to sci.electronics.design:


"D from BC" <myrealaddress@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:14:41 -0500, Jamie
<jamie_ka1lpa_not_valid_after_ka1lpa_@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Some of you may get something out of this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmYDgncMhXw

Did I hear that right?

"...an extreme intuition about of all things mechanical and
electrical and....utter social ineptitude."

I started with the 75 in 1 Radio Shack electronics kit.

Now I can't see the tiny parts, my circuits 'blow up' graphically
in spice, my test equipment is not fast enough and I still find
everything difficult. :P


D from BC

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got a 101 in 1 electronics starter kit for my
birthday,
when I was 13 and the damn thing was broken to start with. But it
gave me parts to play with. Ended up raiding the junk pile behind a
TV rapair shop
for more parts, and building whatever hit my interest. Got a job
with a major competitor with Big Blue a year out of high school, and
made my reputation for finding weird bugs and always having the last
of whatever
small part it was someone wanted in my toolkit. During one meeting
on cutting Code A costs (for overnight shipping of parts), my boss
actually told everyone that if they needed a B-list item (counted by
the handfull) to get a machine up and running but there weren't any
in stock, "Call Dave. He'll have it."

Yeah, I got spanked for taking the phone apart. And if they had let
me put it back together it would have saved them a pretty penny.

Love the video. Thanks.

Dave

I think i got started at about 6, i was reassembling clocks that ran
correctly or even kept correct backwards time when i was 8. I got my
101 in 1 kit with a tube when i was 10 for christmas, i was already a
gonner by then.

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