H7140 PDP 11/24 Power Supply Advice

From: Ian Koller <vze2mnvr_at_verizon.net>
Date: Fri Nov 16 03:00:46 2001

Tony Duell wrote:
> In my case, I have a piece of paper saying that I am a particle
> physicist.

Tony,

  Now you're my kind of guy. I enjoy reading physics books
purely for education, information, and entertainment.



Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > > I strongly recomend you learn electronics no matter what sort of
> > > machine you work on.
> >
> > Well, that does it. I'm going to stay an extra few years at college and
> > get a second degree: Electrical & Computer Engineering. Now, look what
> > you've done, you bastards! :-)
>
> In my opinion, haivng a degree (or any other qualification) in a subject
> has 0 correlation with how good you actually are at that subject....
>
> In my case, I have a piece of paper saying that I am a particle
> physicist. In practice, I don't know the first thing about (say) QCD.
>
> I have no pieces of paper saying I am an electrical engineer, electronic
> engineer, computer scientist, programmer, or anything related to
> computers or electronics. But in practice I can generally understand most
> areas of electronics or computing well enough to get the job done.
>
> -tony
Received on Fri Nov 16 2001 - 03:00:46 GMT

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