Government spin AGAIN

[expat]

I did a degree in electronics, I knew all there is to know about valves and magnetrons and stuff. Then what happened ? everyone started using transistors, thats what. So i was left knowing all the principles but it was all useless.
useless.
totally fkng useless.

Know everything? There's a delightful story about the magnetron (British wartime invention): a group of US scientists came over to the UK during the war to review developments. They went back and had a conference at Los Alamos, where an American sctientist called Raby described generating microwaves for radar, with this thing called a magnetron. It works just like a whistle, he said. OK Raby, said a cynical voice from the audience, how does a whistle work?

[Purple Dalek]

Know everything? There's a delightful story about the magnetron (British wartime invention): a group of US scientists came over to the UK during the war to review developments. They went back and had a conference at Los Alamos, where an American sctientist called Raby described generating microwaves for radar, with this thing called a magnetron. It works just like a whistle, he said. OK Raby, said a cynical voice from the audience, how does a whistle work?

Tch, yanks don't even know how a whistle works.

[EternalOptimist]

No it isn’t. The method and way of thinking is still relevant. The world needs more people who are trained in hard technical or scientific subjects, as they’re often the best people for exposing bulltulip.

useless.
useless.

and I'll tell you something else. I was fixing a fault using my voltmete and a big manual with circuit diagrams and stuff, and these yanks were working on another piece of kit. They had a big box that looked like a gramaphone, they called it a computer.
'If you want , we will get you trained up to be our Brit liason on the computer stuff'
'no thanks, it's tulipe, it will never catch on'

useless, thats me.

[EternalOptimist]

Know everything?

everything. go on, ask me a question.

[Mich the Tester]

useless.
useless.

and I'll tell you something else. I was fixing a fault using my voltmete and a big manual with circuit diagrams and stuff, and these yanks were working on another piece of kit. They had a big box that looked like a gramaphone, they called it a computer.
'If you want , we will get you trained up to be our Brit liason on the computer stuff'
'no thanks, it's tulipe, it will never catch on'

useless, thats me.

What's with the negative vibes? You're supposed to be an eternal optimist.

[EternalOptimist]

What's with the negative vibes? You're supposed to be an eternal optimist.

you should have seen where I started from

[expat]

Tch, yanks don't even know how a whistle works.

The point is, a whistle is not actually simpler than radar, just more common.

[Doggy Styles]

The point is, a whistle is not actually simpler than radar, just more common.

I've just had a flashback - we used the term whistling to describe carrier frequencies working. That must be thanks to Raby, eh?

Sorry, carry on.

[expat]

And now you're making a fortune making & selling valve amplifiers to the audio nuts?

I have wondered about that. I can't afford one of these, but maybe I could still build one. Still have soldering iron, and roll of 5-core self-fluxing solder that I bought in 1975 (not realinsing then that it would be a lifetime's supply).

[EternalOptimist]

And now you're making a fortune making & selling valve amplifiers to the audio nuts?

do you want to know what cathode 'bounce' is

*smug b@stard warning*