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From: Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net>
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Subject: Re: CO2 Funny
Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 00:49:32 -0000 (UTC)
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john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 May 2024 22:31:52 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
> <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
> 
>> john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 24 May 2024 11:43:42 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, 24 May 2024 07:17:55 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, 24 May 2024 11:29:37 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard
>>>>> <pommyb@aol.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Thu, 23 May 2024 07:08:05 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Thu, 23 May 2024 09:33:11 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard
>>>>>>> <pommyb@aol.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 10:52:40 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 18:10:58 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard
>>>>>>>>> <pommyB@aol.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 07:54:30 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 13:58:13 -0000 (UTC), jim whitby
>>>>>>>>>>> <news@spockmail.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, 22 May 2024 14:36:00 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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 sister’s freshman physics lab.
>> (Physics 110 at UBC, probably fall 1970.)
>> 
>> I remember that it had delayed sweep , and wasn’t 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 

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Dr Philip C D Hobbs  Principal Consultant  ElectroOptical Innovations LLC /
Hobbs ElectroOptics  Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics