Subj : H-P DeskJet 639C
To   : ROY J. TELLASON
From : WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
Date : Sun Aug 14 2005 12:17 pm

-> THURSTON ACKERMAN wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

-> RJT>Jeez,  doesn't anybody fix this stuff any more?  (Feeling more and
-> RJT>more like this skillset I've been honing for decades now is 
-> RJT>completely obsolete...)

-> TA> It may not help much Roy, but you are not alone in your frustration
-> TA> (remember all the stuying we did about vacuum tube technology, only
-> TA> to having to start all over again when semi-conductor technology
-> TA> made the it obsolete ?-(

-> Yes,  I do indeed remember all of that stuff...!

Well FETs and power FETS act a lot like tubes.
I lost it when stuff went to surface mount :-(
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