My Pulse Generator

RE: My Pulse Generator

Andrew J — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 12:28:32 GMT

I do like it when you guys drag out your old stuff, I have a real appreciation for old engineering. We are all old and ugly enough to know that things change over the years but it’s always good to show that we were solving these problems back in the day and, “no, you haven’t come up with anything revolutionary, just updated” [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-e0f3fbc7-21dd-4c4a-98ae-3ba0c4033117/3480.contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]

Software engineering doesn’t tend to keep a track of ancestry in the same way (unless you work with COBOL in a bank!) but it certainly isn’t getting simpler, just more complex, and we insist on solving the same problems. Some things I definitely don’t miss though: try explaining juggling PC memory managers with boot files to install software that happens to be 700KB in size to the ladies and gents fresh out of university today.

RE: My Pulse Generator

Jan Cumps — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 21:11:14 GMT

Your yellow soldering iron, what brand is that?

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jw0752 — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 20:28:56 GMT

Hi Dubbie,

Lots of fun to look back and see how we used to do things. Thanks for sharing.

John

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Jan Cumps — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 18:36:32 GMT

Based on the look and feel, 1983 [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-e0f3fbc7-21dd-4c4a-98ae-3ba0c4033117/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]. My projects of that time looked exactly the same and also used exactly 1 LED. Because they were precious.

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shabaz — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 17:24:40 GMT

Hi Dubbie,

Nicely made! I like the style.

Also, I always loved that Letraset font : )

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RE: My Pulse Generator

three-phase — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 19:51:27 GMT

Consigned to the rubbish heap! I thought you would put some wheels on it and turn it into a robot that comes scooting across your desk when you declare that you needed a pulse generating.

Kind regards