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From: john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
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Subject: Re: squeezing a field
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:23:50 -0700
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:56:59 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:

>john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:45:20 +0200, Lasse Langwadt <llc@fonz.dk>
>> wrote:
>[...]
>> >plugging numbers pulled out of thin air into LTSpice is better that 
>> >doing the actual measurement?
>
>
>> 
>> It is for people who don't actually work with real parts.
>
>
>Peter Baxandall (of tone control and QUAD amplifier fame) claimed to use
>analogue computing to work out his designs  i.e. He built prototypes and
>measured them.

You youngsters probably don't remember a time when there wasn't Spice.

I did some simulation in Basic-Plus, and it was a nuisance. My first
PC sim program was Tatum labs ECA, which required a typed netlist. But
it was pretty cool.