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Article #3293Re: Advice on getting started...?
From: The Q
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1989 15:47
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1989 15:47
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In article <12095@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu (David Palmer) writes:
>
> I got started, 15 years ago or so, by picking up some 74XX ICs and a breadboard
> from Radio Sh**, reading "The TTL Cookbook" (By Don Lancaster, I believe)
> and some 555 (timer) technotes, and just plunging in by doing simple
> things.
>
> Now I'm an experimental physicist making $12,000 a year and living in Pasadena.
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Wow! They don't pay too well at CalTech, do they?? :)
I hope that's a typo - at UCLA, our grad students in physics (like
me!) get paid more than that...
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