Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!topgun.dspo.gov!lanl!beta!dac!price 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 Lines: 25 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... -- /------------------------\ /-----------------------------------------\ | John Price | Internet:price@dac.lanl.gov | | BITNET: price@lampf | SneakerNet:UCLA Dept. of Physics | | DECnet:dac::price | 5-105 Knudsen Hall | | YellNet:(213)825-2259 | Los Angeles, CA 90024-1547 | \------------------------/ \-----------------------------------------/ /--------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Where there is no solution, there is no problem. | \--------------------------------------------------------------------/