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Hi Keith
That sound to light unit sounds familar . In 1976 i was
a 3rd
year apprentice and i built a 4 channel sound to lite sequencer thingy .I
think
it was published in either Everyday Electronics or was it Practical
Electronics
.Spent a fortune on it ,nice aluminium case ,letreset lettering. I guy i
worked
with borrowed it for a disco and that was the last i seen of it . Left
school 15
and 9 months no cse no nothing .
Frank Mc
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Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 4:12
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Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Writing
books
When I stated working for "Post Office
Telecommunications"
as it was back in
1976, I was one of 12 apprentices taken on in the
Norwich
area. Of the 12,
11 of use were 16 witht he other being a year older and
having done a year
in higher education.
I only had 6
CSE's,
Grade
1 Maths, Technical Drawing, General Science, Woodwork
Grade 2
MetalWork
Grade 4 English.
All the others had O Levels in loads
of
subjects. What clinched it for me at
the interview was that I took along
a
Sound-to-Light unit that I had built
for the Youth Club disco that I
ran.
The PCB was homemade as was the case
which was formed from a cut up
solvent
container. In fact, the words JIZER
were still decorating the inside of
the
case.
About 20 years later I was attending the funeral of a
colleague
and my old
training officer was there (he was at my original interview).
We
were
talking about the intervening years when he recalled the Sound to
Light unit
that I had taken to the interview.
It wouldnt matter
how
good I had been at English, because whenever I have to
write technical
documentation WORD would still complain about what I was
typing and then
try to put what IT thought I wanted to write. What really
gets me is
when
you type in the name of a Microsoft product and the spell
checker doesnt
think it is a proper word! You would think they would put all
their own
product names and trademarks into the dictionary
:-)
Keith
www.diyha.co.uk
www.kat5.tv
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Message-----
From: Nic Blinston [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
Sent:
28 April 2002 18:55
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: [ukha_d] [OT]
Writing books
>Writing a book would be one in the eye for my
old
English teacher. I almost
>failed CSE English but scraped by with a
Grade 4. He failed to point out to
>me that the books on the
"suggested
reading" list were actually COMPULSORY.
I had the same problem... I
fundamentally disagreed with the notion
that just because something was
old
and a 'classic', it was
automatically good and worth
reading.
Eventually I gave up on English Lit. to concentrate on the
other
subjects. Last year, I completed a 50,000 word User Guide for
some
software. Similar to Keith, technical books, magazines and
other
'literature' have helped me with this and a number of
magazine
articles I've had published.
Nic
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