09-02-13 14:52 BOB KLAHN wrote to ED VANCE about Ham Radio Promo   
      
    BK> @MSGID: <52265E3B.208.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    BK>  ...   
      
    BK>>  first time. Now so much has changed I tell people I have a   
    BK>> mind   
    BK>>  full of obsolete knowledge.   
      
    EV> It's NOT Obsolete to guys like me who want to know what the   
    EV> earlier folks learned (The Hard Way) way back when.   
      
    EV> In the 1960's I was listening to two people talking about   
    EV> How Simple Such And Such Was, and I told them they ought to   
    EV> write a book for folks like me to learn all about that   
    EV> Subject.   
      
    BK>  Ed, if you were doing that back in the '60s I doubt you don't   
    BK>  already know the obsolete knowledge I have.   
      
   Bob, When I heard the two men talking I didn't know enough   
   about the subject to understand it OR to retain it for   
   future reference, plus I didn't have a computer to keep notes   
   to help my memory until March 1984, and it took a few months   
   after I got that C=64 to know how to do that.   
      
   When I got the C=64 and 1541 Floppy Drive I couldn't figure out   
   how to format a Blank Disk.   
   I tried over and over using FORMAT #?? without getting any results.   
   It was about the third day I had the computer that I tried the   
   TEST DISK program on the floppy that came with the 1541 and saw   
   it ask me to Insert a Blank Disk.   
      
   NO matter how many times I read the instruction book I couldn't   
   figure out that I was suppose to type what was on the first page   
   of the book that said, OPEN 15,8,15 EVERY TIME I USED ANY OF THE   
   COMMANDS ON THE PAGES FOLLOWING THE "OPEN" Command.   
      
   Six to Ten Months Later by looking over Basic Program Code it   
   finally occured to me that I wasn't suppose to turn to any of   
   the other Command Pages before I entered the OPEN 15,8,15 line.   
      
   That's The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth!   
      
    BK>  A couple years ago I lectured a tech on the operation of   
    BK> vacuum   
    BK>  tubes. I suspect you don't need that lecture.   
      
   I used to drool over the EIMAC 4-65A, but never built anything   
   that used it.   
      
   Later I met a Ham who sold me a chassis for 2 4-125A that he used   
   to use before he built a larger RF AMP.   
   There were 2 sockets for the Finals, but he had removed the   
   High Voltage Capacitors AND Variable Caps to use in his new RF Amp.   
   I didn't have the money to buy the parts so never built it.   
      
   73    .  .   
      
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