Radio Shack Electronic Kits

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Too_Many_Tools

Jan 1, 1970
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"But, as you implied, only to those who are not so-inclined. "

LOL

As I asked, what other fields are tougher?

In colleges in the United States, they use the freshmen and sophmore
engineering track classes to separate the wheat from the chaff with the
wheat going on to engineering and science careers.

Where does the chaff go...business and politics?

TMT
 
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Don Bowey

Jan 1, 1970
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"But, as you implied, only to those who are not so-inclined. "

LOL

As I asked, what other fields are tougher?

In colleges in the United States, they use the freshmen and sophmore
engineering track classes to separate the wheat from the chaff with the
wheat going on to engineering and science careers.

Where does the chaff go...business and politics?

Yes. Many get an MBA and then get into electronics companies to screw all
the technical people and steal big dollars from the organization. Some of
the remainder become outstanding engineers.

Don
 
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Too_Many_Tools

Jan 1, 1970
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"ah, the idjits are going into idjit jobs, just like they always did.
More of the smarter kids are going into medicine, law, and business.
It takes more effort and money than engineering, perhaps, but the
payoff is you are less likely to be outsourced or become obsolescent
halfway through your working life."

I disagree...it takes LESS effort to do medicine, law and business than
engineering.

Money...yes for medicine....effort...no.

Law and business...it takes little intellect to succeed in both fields.

TMT
 
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Keith

Jan 1, 1970
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"But, as you implied, only to those who are not so-inclined. "

LOL

As I asked, what other fields are tougher?

In colleges in the United States, they use the freshmen and sophmore
engineering track classes to separate the wheat from the chaff with the
wheat going on to engineering and science careers.

Where does the chaff go...business and politics?

"Education" or economics.
 
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Don Bowey

Jan 1, 1970
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"ah, the idjits are going into idjit jobs, just like they always did.
More of the smarter kids are going into medicine, law, and business.
It takes more effort and money than engineering, perhaps, but the
payoff is you are less likely to be outsourced or become obsolescent
halfway through your working life."

I disagree...it takes LESS effort to do medicine, law and business than
engineering.

Money...yes for medicine....effort...no.

You are clearly FOS, and lack any first hand knowledge about this. Medicine
takes great determination, money, and effort.

Perhaps you had trouble with engineering because you are one of those not
suited to it.
 
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Too_Many_Tools

Jan 1, 1970
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"You are clearly FOS, and lack any first hand knowledge about this.
Medicine
takes great determination, money, and effort.

Perhaps you had trouble with engineering because you are one of those
not
suited to it."

You are the one FOS....you are talking to someone who has done well in
several of the fields we are discussing.

Medicine uses what science/engineering provides for it....and they are
grossly overpaid for it. Without technology, medicine would be the
voodoo that it was and many times still is.

TMT
 
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Don Bowey

Jan 1, 1970
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"You are clearly FOS, and lack any first hand knowledge about this.
Medicine
takes great determination, money, and effort.

Perhaps you had trouble with engineering because you are one of those
not
suited to it."

You are the one FOS....you are talking to someone who has done well in
several of the fields we are discussing.

Medicine uses what science/engineering provides for it....and they are
grossly overpaid for it. Without technology, medicine would be the
voodoo that it was and many times still is.

TMT

Beating your chest and repeating yourself doesn't change anything..... You
are still ignorant of the facts.

Don
 
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Too_Many_Tools

Jan 1, 1970
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"Beating your chest and repeating yourself doesn't change anything.....
You
are still ignorant of the facts.

Don "

Well Don, why don't you enlighten us with "The Facts"?

I look forward to hearing them.

Until then, you have little creditability with me.

As for me "repeating", well sometimes you have to repeat the material
for the slower ones in the group....I said. "sometimes you have to
repeat the material for the slower ones in the group". LOL

TMT
 
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Don Bowey

Jan 1, 1970
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"Beating your chest and repeating yourself doesn't change anything.....
You
are still ignorant of the facts.

Don "

Well Don, why don't you enlighten us with "The Facts"?

I look forward to hearing them.

My facts are that I raised three children, who from the oldest to the
youngest, got their degrees in chemistry, physics, and medicine (MD)
respectively. I know what they and their friends went through in the
several programs, and what their lives have been like since graduating.
Only the medical students were treated like indentured slaves, and forced to
work 16 and more hours a day during the internship and residency. My
daughter, after completing her normal residency (internal medicine), opted
for another year in a work/study program in infectious diseases. In her
practice, she writes off a lot of billable hours for her patients. She
doesn't do much more than break even with her costs many months. Her
husband, a Urology surgeon has a higher income, but also writes off quite a
bit. A typical workday is 12 hours, plus calls at home and some weekend
work.

My other two children, and myself, worked hard at getting through school,
but had lots of playtime. It was work, but not torturous as it was with the
medical students.


Until then, you have little creditability with me.

I'm so glad.
As for me "repeating", well sometimes you have to repeat the material
for the slower ones in the group....I said. "sometimes you have to
repeat the material for the slower ones in the group". LOL

Oh, yes, that was humorous.
 
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Mike Coslo

Jan 1, 1970
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Don said:
You can have all those "I wannas" on the day you invent zero bandwidth CW
(you know, those old-fashioned dit and dahs). In the meanwhile, grow up and
get a brain.

Yawn.
 
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Frank Raffaeli

Jan 1, 1970
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Some of the things you *want* are possible, but not without
clarification and compromise. I think I can do the digital voice and
the SSTV, depending on the C&C.

Frank Raffaeli
http://www.aomwireless.com/
 
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Mike Coslo

Jan 1, 1970
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Don said:
Well, deja vu.... If it wasn't clear, "yawn" is what I thought of your
pompous, and mindless post.

Okay Don, if you thought that my post was mindless, then perhaps you
might go back and read it.

As a refresher and to paraphrase, I noted in this thread that Winlink
is a day late and about ten dollars short. Getting email via HF radio is
not high tech, not a good use of spectrum, and there are plenty of other
technological achievements that would be of much more use to the ARS
than that.

If you still think that that is stupid and pompous, then so be it.

- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -
 
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Steve Silverwood

Jan 1, 1970
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I like many of you had my first experience with electronics through the
electronic kits that Radio Shack has had over the years. The versions
that spanned the 50, 100, 200 electronic experiments all come to mind.

My question is...how many versions and types of these kits have they
had over the years?

I would be interested in hearing which ones you recall.

I don't know how many they've had, but I remember being overjoyed one
Christmas when I got the 50-in-1 kit. It was the one with the wooden
case, and all the components were on the main board with spring
connections.

I just bought one for my grandson for last Christmas. This one was 200-
in-1 and had several ICs for mounting on a breadboard system. Some
components were mounted on the main board with spring connections, like
the various potentiometers, LEDs and such. VERY nice system. We spent
several hours going through some of the projects. He's having a great
time with it!

Thank you, RS!

--

-- //Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Fountain Valley, CA
Email: [email protected]
 
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