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Article #1459Re: AM 1100?
From: Lou Duchez
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 00:00
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In article <4tbgau$ioa@antares.en.com>, grumpy@en.com (Seymour Dupa) wrote: > drsoran (drsoran@ni.cba.csuohio.edu) wrote: > : WTAM huh? Must have been long before I was born.. was that back > : when cars still only had AM radios and you had to tune the station in > : with a dial? ;) > > Why of course - how else can you do it? :) A "dial"? You damn kids and your new inventions, you're getting SOFT. In *my* day, when we wanted a new station, we'd reposition the cat's whisker on the lump of germanium and adjust the capacitance or the inductance. And we were the better for it too! You damn kids are lost if your BATTERY runs down ... not us! We're all laughing at you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Lou Duchez - ljduchez@en.com - http://www.en.com/users/ljduchez -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108bc6,6bc82e5ef34f87b1 X-Google-Attributes: gid108bc6,public From: ljduchez@en.com (Lou Duchez) Subject: Re: AM 1100? Date: 1996/07/27 Message-ID: <3Dg+xgiGksBM088yn@en.com> X-Deja-AN: 170407451 references: <4t5bui$qva@news-e2d.gnn.com> organization: ExchangeNet Inc. newsgroups: cle.general