good day from hawaii....

Is using the term glass transistors elevate you above tubes? 

24.5 spacing wow, you have worked on some big boards. Don't you just hate the post that points our errors you never see.

Count the rings I agree too funny

I have a vertical integration question I suppose it's more business than ones and zeros themselves

having been 25.4 mm Spacing all this time And because all my work is pin to pin

If I switched to a ti 2640 BLe chip 5mm x5

At least for now I would like to get the DIP breakoutCard and solder paste That 5 x 5 to it so I don't have to squint now for the rest of my life

and deal with only one small footprint In my final product

Because inevitably if I create a product that somehow universally accepted I'll have to fix the damn things from time to time

I saw bio among you that referenced aviation and avionic's

that's the FAA career I retired from basically an installer in that license I had four licenses from the FAA a 1959 twin airplane that optometry rented from me daily

Airplane rentals when the first problem is in Hawaii is where Is the aircraft now???

One of myengineering cruise was a Cell phone module sensing the landing gear switch so I knew when it was landing to check how much oil head leaked out of it

Remember this is the 50s in airplanes because of their aluminum engines really changed dimensions between being warm and cold and oil is all over the place as a result

anyway I have 1 million questions for you all and appreciate you letting me know if the cc 2640 is a good Bluetooth choice and can I use eclipse on the TI launchpad Eval

And what can I expect to be my experience solder pasting 5 x 5 footprints to a breakout card

Thanks again

someone also has to explain to me how the photos in my iPhone can be directly linked so there's no downloading on your end...I resisted iCloud keeping my phone photos for years

and with all the damn Apple products I've been through a lot of my photos are lost

So I went over to iCloud and give me some tips on how to make the photos more readily available at your end

thanks again

vintage symptoms / questions .... Do you know what a 300 baud modem sounds like? Can you whistle to wake up such a modem? Did you use a daisy wheel printer? What technology did facsimile replace? How much data fit on an 8" floppy disk? Did your RS232 terminal require a null modem? Who made the first flat screen CRT computer display?

Thanks for sharing tiko50 you've certainly lived an interesting life.

Perhaps count the number of obsolete components in their storage drawers ?

I would have thought that "tubes and other technologies" might have been a key to how I determine vintage, but still "Do you cut off a leg and count the rings" made me laugh!

Vintage Engineers, I like the term. How do you determine what vintage. Do you cut off a leg and count the rings? Or sorry that is for trees and they don't seem to grow after.

 tiko50  The post picture at the top would have been nice instead of the LINK to the iCloud, and then wait for it to load!!!                 ~~~ Cris

OK Hawaii is nice but Guam, with water so clear you can see the bottom (I was a guest of the AF... LOL)

 tiko50 Did That Done That. Now do you want a medal??, hey I don't make PCBs I wire wrap!!!!  Also delivered 8/32 #1 really #2 for the UNIX Project at Bell Labs... I despise Python as it's a throwback to FORTRAN!!! I only write in C now and only use Eclipse for my IDE... (hey, I'm sarcastic) welcome to the club..