Connectors (was: NEXT Color Printer find

From: Ian Koller <vze2mnvr_at_verizon.net>
Date: Tue Jan 1 10:03:20 2002

> Practical experience and hard knocks school is your best teacher
> , I agree. Blow up, screw up some stuff as you learn as you go on is
> required.


  Does that also apply to Nuclear Weapons Engineers?





jpero_at_sympatico.ca wrote:
>
> > From: ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
> > Subject: Re: Connectors (was: NEXT Color Printer find
> > To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> > Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 02:08:07 +0000 (GMT)
> > Reply-to: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
>
> > > >Then I would suggest you're working with engineers who are not
> > > > particularly knowledgable about practical electronics. If they're (say)
> > > > mechanical engineers or civil engineers, then no problem. If they claim
> > > > to tbe electronic engineers I'd probably dispute that claim.
> > >
> > > I agree, last year they couldn't even build a set of LED Christmas tree lights
> > > without blowing them up, never heard of constant current drive !!! I'm not
> >
> > Do you own a suitably large LART?
> >
> > I must have told the story of the 362.8 ohm resistor. In case I haven't,
> > it goes like this.
> >
> > I was working in a lab at a university over here when some final year
> > engineering student asked me for a 362.8 ohm resistor 'as there are none
> > in the drawer'. I said that I was not suprised, and asked him what on
> > earth he needed it for.
>
> Glug! Almost sprayed water on my precious IBM keyboard.!
> Even 180 Ohms is good enough driven directly from TTL. :-)
>
> > The answer? An LED current limiting resistor. Apparently he'd taken the
>
> Snip!
>
> > I've come to the conclusion that the best (electronic?) engineers and
> > programmers are all essentially self-taught. It's probably much the same
> > in all creative subjects.
>
> Practical experience and hard knocks school is your best teacher
> , I agree. Blow up, screw up some stuff as you learn as you go on is
> required. Straightening out those mistakes if you can discover is
> excellent way to learn.
>
> > [...]
> >
> > > Agreed, I believe any so called engineer should have a practical "hands on"
> > > experience in both hardware and software, after all if they don't understand
> > > the
> > > basics they are of little use.
>
> > I wonder if the HPIB spec (if it was ever published) specifies the
> > jackscrew threads.
>
> Might be not existent.
>
> 4-40 is right for those kind.
>
> > -tony
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wizard
Received on Tue Jan 01 2002 - 10:03:20 GMT