On Sunday 22 October 2017 20:00:21 jrmitchellj . wrote: > I don't even have my First Phone ticket up on the wall anymore. It > gets no respect at all now!
When I was looking for work, some decades ago, I'd lay that on the desk then make a show of finding my CET card in the wallet. Even then the 1st wasn't anything but paper, but eyebrows went up and I got the job when they saw the C.E.T. card. That over-rode any concerns they may have had about my 8th grade education. I do not know if theres another of those cards in West Virginia. Nebraska is ISCET HQ, and last I knew, they had issued 122 of those cards, mine is NEB-118 issued in '72. Most of them went to Ca. because its a requirement to get a business license to open a tv repair shop in Ca. Now of course, except for psu electrolytics, tv's aren't generally repairable, no data. The consumer has been trained to toss & buy new. :( > > > Ray > > --J. Ray Mitchell Jr. > jrmitche...@gmail.com > (818)324-7573 > > > The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. > The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the > occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We > must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our > country.*Abraham Lincoln > <http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Abraham_Lincoln/>*, *Annual > message to Congress, December 1, 1862* > *16th president of US (1809 - 1865)* > > On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > On Sunday 22 October 2017 00:31:29 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 21 October 2017 21:18:28 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Saturday 21 October 2017 20:36:28 andy pugh wrote: > > > > > On 21 October 2017 at 23:50, Gene Heskett > > > > > <ghesk...@shentel.net> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > I have 4 ea 5i25's. A 5th one has been tossed as the ptc > > > > > > blew up hard enough to leave a carbonized crather in the > > > > > > pcb. > > > > > > > > > > You seem to have a rare talent for breaking Mesa cards. > > > > > > > > > > > Plugged into the huge Optiplex 745 with a 3.4 GHz dual core > > > > > > intel cpu, 2 of them will turn the power led orange, which > > > > > > stops the boot in its tracks in under a second from powerup. > > > > > > > > > > I have never seen this with a Mesa card directly in a > > > > > motherboard slot. I _have_ seen this when using riser cards. > > > > > Are you using any sort of riser card? > > > > > > > > + > > > > No, sorry to disappoint you. :) > > > > > > And just maybe I am not D.I.W. till I get some more 5i25's, toward > > > the end of the coming week now. Walking out of my midden > > > heap/den/computer room just now to take my nightly pills and get > > > ready to catch a few, I spied a box with some r-pi packaging in > > > it, and halfway to the bottom of the box was a brand new, still > > > sealed in the pink bag, 5i25 with a full height backplate. So that > > > one will get tested tomorrow. A sticker even says it already has > > > the correct firmware loaded. > > > > > > My grin is pretty wide right now. > > > > But I am not going to get at it in whats left of the day today. > > > > You see, radio engineers are a dying breed, no magic left in the FCC > > ticket, and I am close to the last in this patch of woods. So when > > the phone call came in from our local AM daytimer that his nearly 70 > > yo, 1kw Gates transmitter was on the fritz (again, I've been keeping > > it on the air for nearly 20 years now) I told him it would take a > > bit to get it all in one sock, but that I'd be there after taking > > care of the Missus. > > > > And I spent the rest of the day replacing semi-cooked parts and > > tubes. But although we both looked high and low for an 8200 ohm 2 > > watt resistor that I think is in its death throes, Digikey was as > > close as we found some more of those. 5 of them, metal film 3 > > watters S/B here Wednesday sometime late. But I'm bushed. He has a > > 50 watt night time transmitter for backup, so that will get some > > daytime use. > > > > As the saying goes. I'm not the man I once was, even once. :) > > Sigh... > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------ > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's > most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. 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