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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft warns of blue screen crashes caused by April updates
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 19:58:56 +1000
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On 22/04/2025 5:32 am, rbowman wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:40:14 +1000, Daniel70 wrote:
> 
>> "resistor color coding"!! Now there's a flash from the past .....
> 
> Maybe it's a flash from your past...  Working with microcontrollers there
> is a need for external circuitry requiring resistors for pullups, biasing,
> and current limiting LEDs.

When I joined the Australian Army (1973), I did a three year trade 
apprenticeship. IF, at the end of the trade apprenticeship, *IF* you had 
pasted all your module exams, you got a two week introduction to these 
new-fangled things called "chips" or "ICs" .... which got you about as 
far as AND/OR/NAND/NOR gates ..... but there were several of them 
with-in the one component!!

> My eyes aren't getting any better with age but iirc it was a lot easier to
> read the colors on 1/4 watt resistors than the 1/8 watt metal film types
> where the body is light beige or blue.
> 
Correct! Correct! Given my failing eyesight (too), give me rings of 
colour ANY day of the week ... any light condition (well, at least with 
some light!! ;-P ).
-- 
Daniel70