Vitaliy wrote regarding 'Re: [OT] Dumbest Circuit I Ever Built that Worked (Was You gottoreadthis in Microchip Forum' on Fri, Feb 24 at 14:09:
> Martin McCormick wrote:
> >> Martin, you are right.  I have had a ball for 69 of my 74 years doing
> >> what I like and that is electronics.
> 
> Out of curiosity, what did "doing electronics" mean to you back in 1932, 
> when you were just five years old?

I can't speak for Martin, but at that point in my life "Stomper"
trucks were popular, and I had been taking them apart and changing
motors / hooking up larger batteries for a while, as well as building
a variety of moving systems with a robot erector set (Now! With extra
sharp edges and missing bolts!).  I couldn't have been more than about
6 years old when I received one of those electronics kits which had
the spring terminals and an assortment of devices mounted on a board
(and a book with circuits - the best of which made noise).  Do "they"
still sell those things?

It took me until "Analog Signal Processing" in college - nearly 15
years later - to determine that I did not, in fact, enjoy working with
analog systems. :)

--Danny
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