Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Phil Hobbs Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: CO2 Funny Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 00:49:32 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 118 Message-ID: References: <2k9s4j94256k6gbapd5snscqosn3b53ici@4ax.com> <4dju4jhjb5en96pfflaq64pqbjhv68cbut@4ax.com> <7dp05j1nullro5nq4uqsbtc6s162pd97pt@4ax.com> <3cd15jdqo4mhb730352qcqaqiieij54ggm@4ax.com>

MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 02:49:32 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0f741b375bb12ae64014156dc1b373b1"; logging-data="2700390"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19avYWVYHue75/6dq7CNelJ" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CT4zJ3XyZpSzNdr9/0NKzxBb70w= sha1:0N2YXeUqlV9092cKfcYBl5yY73s= Bytes: 5964 john larkin wrote: > On Fri, 24 May 2024 22:31:52 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs > wrote: > >> john larkin wrote: >>> On Fri, 24 May 2024 11:43:42 -0400, Joe Gwinn >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, 24 May 2024 07:17:55 -0700, john larkin wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Fri, 24 May 2024 11:29:37 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, 23 May 2024 07:08:05 -0700, john larkin wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Thu, 23 May 2024 09:33:11 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 10:52:40 -0700, john larkin wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 18:10:58 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard >>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 07:54:30 -0700, john larkin wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 13:58:13 -0000 (UTC), jim whitby >>>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 14:36:00 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Who says I don't? Unlike you, an odious little narcissist, I don't feel >>>>>>>>>>>>> the need to show everyone here how clever I am. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Spoken like a true liberal. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> When things don't go your way... start name calling. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Exactly. Cheap insults are, well, cheap. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Indeed. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> 9djf3jlovr2bmpkn03e18237njtcorg9rj@4ax.com >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> That was, in my opinion, a reasonable observation. Nasty humorless >>>>>>>>> people DO usually design nasty electronics. Or no electronics. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Your hypocrisy is breathtaking! >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> You started this off topic thread in which you posed a question >>>>>>>> completely unrelated to the subject. I answered your question >>>>>>>> honestly but your narcissism prompted you to take it as an insult >>>>>>>> presumably because I hadn't massaged your ego. You leapt in feet first >>>>>>>> with your stock insult and when I retaliated you and your fan club >>>>>>>> rounded on me for having the audacity to call out one of the worst >>>>>>>> offenders for insults. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> If you want to see SED cleaned up you should take a leaf out of your >>>>>>>> own book and stop indulging in off topic rubbish. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Like active filters? >>>>>> >>>>>> Do try not to be so stupid. As you well know I was referring to the >>>>>> subject of the current thread being off-topic. >>>>>> >>>>>> Of course active filters are a suitable topic for discussion in SED, >>>>>> but when you include a stupid question in your own off topic thread >>>>>> you should not throw around insults when you get an answer you don't >>>>>> expect. Were you hoping for a "yes please" type of response? >>>>> >>>>> Obviously. But nobody is interested. >>>>> >>>>> Are you here to discuss electronics, or to cackle and insult? Lately >>>>> SED is full of clucking old hens who probably haven't owned an >>>>> oscilloscope in decades. >>>> >>>> If ever. >>>> >>>> Joe Gwinn >>> >>> I got my first scope, a Heathkit, when I was in junior high school. It >>> was I think 5 MHz, all ac-coupled, repetitive sweep, uncalibrated, >>> pretty primitive. >>> >>> I later got a summer job in a university physics department and got >>> to use a Tektronix. I was amazed. That 535 cost as much as a Chevrolet >>> at the time. >> >> I first used one when I was 10 or 11, in my sisters freshman physics lab. >> (Physics 110 at UBC, probably fall 1970.) >> >> I remember that it had delayed sweep , and wasnt anything too fancy >> otherwise, so it was probably a 522 or something like that. (The lab >> session was about learning how to use the scope, which was pretty cool.) >> >> Cheers >> >> Phil Hobbs > > There were a couple of plugins that did things that no scope does > today. The diffamp with switchable high and low bandwidth, and the > astounding differential comparators. > > > > Nuvistors are pretty cool for some jobs, even today. Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics