Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)

On 27/10/2024 9:24 am, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 21:47:43 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
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On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 08:16:19 -0700, john larkin wrote:
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On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 13:48:00 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
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On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:27:24 -0400, Tom Del Rosso wrote:
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Jan Panteltje wrote:

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And the old zig-zag symbols the US uses for resistors.....
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What's the point of that?
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Wasn't the zigzag used everywhere for 100 years?
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A rectangle could be anything.

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It's a connector pin on our schematics.
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I fully agree, Tom. If I saw that thing I'd immediately assume it
represented a cocktail sausage.

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Edible schematics. Sounds good to me. The little rectangles on the
lower-right can hold the dippy sauces and toothpicks.

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I did wonder what they were for, but lacked the confidence to ask about
them. Thanks, John.

 I just got a pack of this
 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001DKLAJ6
 With the right pencil, it does great line work and photographs well.
Erases nicely too.
 It doesn't have a grid, but it's translucent so I lay it on top of a
sheet of blue-grid paler and I can follow the lines when I draw.

So somebody has made a grade of paper that works as well as the Mylar drafting film that I used back in the days when we still drew circuit diagram with pencils on a drawing board.
It's kind of tedious to simulate that kind of schematic, and you get transcription errors.
I got very fond of finding my drop-offs by simulating the circuit after I'd made changes.
And getting the computer to pull out the parts list, made making up a bill of material a lot less tedious and a lot less error-prone.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney