Re: Kilowatts (was: Re: My Linux Lair -- A Photo Essay)

On 14 Jan 2025 22:34:47 GMT, vallor wrote:

Sidenote: Do they still teach electronics with discrete components in
High School?  I hope so...I learned it growing up, but having a
structured course with theory helped with my "STEM" career (which wasn't
called that back then...).

My high school didn't have an electronics course. Had they, given the lag
between high school courses and the rest of the world, the discretes would
have been 6AU6s pentode and six dot mica capacitors.

https://www.radioremembered.org/capcode.htm

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/RYYAAOSwxT5nV79L/s-l1600.webp

If you don't know what the image is your education was limited. I had an
advantage. My uncle owned a radio and TV store where the 'store' part was
small compared to the back room with units waiting repair. 'In those days
when the TV repairman, who made house calls, pronounced 'it has to go back
to the shop' it was like your doctor telling you that you should get your
affairs in order.

He was old enough that in the course of his life radios and then TVs were
cutting edge technology.