When I learned electronics in high school it was tubes. Transistors had just been invented but were not commercially available. We wrapped our own coils for our one tube radio receivers and soldered the circuits using terminal strips. The soldering irons were passive - oblong chunks of copper that we had to file smooth and tin every day this on a steel shaft with a wooden handle. In total, about 16" long. By passive, I mean we had to heat them in little natural gas ovens that two classmates would share. I'm in hysterics thinking about a password protected digital soldering iron.. I've got an old pencil iron that got me through my life so far but this discussion has forced me into replying.. too funny - password protected soldering iron. I know, I know it makes sense for that environment but you hit my funny bone, that's all.
Just had to share. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 07:25:21AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Saw something about a password on the link to the digital version. A > > password on a soldering iron?! I can see it now, soldering stations with > > PostIt Notes stuck to them with passwords written on... > > > > Hey, that's a feature! ;) I just looked it up because I was curious, looks > like the password is a setting that you can turn on if you need to have the > iron locked to a set temperature for process control in a manufacturing > environment. If you don't care about it, it won't get in the way. > > Changing temps is a little more involved with the digital version, like I > thought, but once you set up your presets (or just use the defaults) it > looks like it's reasonable to use. > > Here's the manual, if anyone is curious (direct PDF link): > https://doc.hakko.com/download.php?_gs=on&l=en&kp=fx-888d&d=3316 > > -- > -- > ----- > You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs > > Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vintage Macs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
