Yessss! Finally somebody who thinks like I do <VBEG>

I love miniaturization, but lets keep alive the stuff that you can actually
get your hands on (at least until we all have scanning-tunneling electron
microscopes and molecular-beam-epitaxy machines in our basement <G>)

BTW, I am 19,and yes,I do know how to bias a triode (roughly <G>).

Sean


At 07:57 PM 9/26/99 -0700, you wrote:
>LOL!!! I am bored of what I have now, and want to get a taste of what came
>before :) I am 18, and unfortunately, my entire life has been microchips,
>miniaturization, microcomputers, smaller smaller smaller, faster and less
>fun for someone with a soldering iron and a bucket of components. I want
>something big, something that hurts me if I drop it on my foot, something
>that reads a medium that I can manually edit, something that flashes lights
>and lets me know it is working! I find modern computers great for computing
>but horrible for experimenting. I have to tip-toe around a modern OS chewing
>on 24 megabytes of RAM, and I can't do anything stupid like divide by 0
>without the OS going crazy, crashing and taking a month to reboot just so
>that I can divide by 0 again.
>
>- Keelan Lightfoot
>
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