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From: price@mpx0.lanl.gov (The Q)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Advice on getting started...?
Message-ID: <523@mpx0.lanl.gov>
Date: 30 Sep 89 15:47:10 GMT
References: <975@serene.UUCP> <12095@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Organization: LAMPF Data Analysis Center, Los Alamos NM
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In article <12095@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu (David Palmer) writes:
> 
> I got started, 15 years ago or so, by picking up some 74XX ICs and a breadboard
> from Radio Sh**, reading "The TTL Cookbook" (By Don Lancaster, I believe)
> and some 555 (timer) technotes, and just plunging in by doing simple
> things.
> 
> Now I'm an experimental physicist making $12,000 a year and living in Pasadena.
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	Wow!  They don't pay too well at CalTech, do they??  :)

	I hope that's a typo - at UCLA, our grad students in physics (like 
me!) get paid more than that...

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