List spammer ID'd

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Wed Mar 28 15:23:29 2001

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Russ Blakeman wrote:

> Long time since I've heard vacuum tubes referred to as valves...

You have missed much of Tony Duell's email?
                                                 - don
 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> > [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of John Honniball
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 10:22 AM
> > To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> > Subject: Re: RE: List spammer ID'd
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 06:35:40 -0600 Russ Blakeman
> > <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com> wrote:
> > > I had a crystal radio in my early teens that we built from a
> > library book
> > > and then I moved to a Hallicrafters multiband reciever w/ long dipole
> > > antenna. I still have the radio but have to find the capacitor
> > that blew and
> > > doesn't allow audio into the preamp. Good thing I have the
> > schematic, now I
> > > just need time.
> >
> > Well, I can remember the days of 405-line TV here in
> > England. We watched it on a valve set made by Pye (now
> > part of Philips). By the time of the Moon landings we had
> > dual-standard 405/625 and VHF/UHF sets. Oh, and BBC 2 was
> > a new channel on UHF, 625-line only!
> >
> > I started in electronics with PNP germanium transistors,
> > although a lot of valve radio and tape recording gear was
> > still around. My idea of "high-tech" shortly after that
> > was a 741 op-amp.
> >
> > I've just done a lecture where I showed people an
> > acoustically-coupled modem (300 baud). I had to take an
> > old phone along to show how it would fit, because no-one
> > would imagine that now, with all phones being different
> > sizes.
> >
> > "...and you try to tell the young people that, and they
> > won't believe you!"
> >
> > --
> > John Honniball
> > Email: John.Honniball_at_uwe.ac.uk
> > University of the West of England
> >
> >
>
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