Professors worry that engineering students don't tinker

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Tue Dec 12 11:01:20 2000

Tony Duell skrev:

>> radios were commonplace and the exciting stuff (for me, at
>> least) was television. Then Philips came out with the
>> N1500 video recorder, and then the first calculators and

>Do you have an N1500. I remember seeing one in a London shop in 1972-ish
>and dreaming of getting one. Now, 28 years later, I have a couple of
>them, working (of course), and the service manual. It's actually quite an
>interesting design both mechanically and electronically.

Is this a "VCR" system?
I wouldn't be able to collect old videos as well, they don't lend themselves
very well to stacking, what with the cassette entry at the top.

>> microcomputers came along.

>Ah yes... And all the fun of wiring up buses on stripboard ;-)

You old farts. =)

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