Hello Jeff.
30 Aug 97 11:19, Jeff Edmonson wrote to Roy Witt:
 JE>
 >> Hello Jeff.
 JE>
 >> 28 Aug 97 20:09, Jeff Edmonson wrote to Roy Witt:
 JE>
 >>  JE>
 >>>>  JE> ...while I can still SEE the numbers on it!
 >>  JE>
 >>>> Quit handling it so much.
 >>  JE>
 >>  JE> It's the eyes that are going - not the numbers!
 JE>
 >> Been there, done that, got the glasses.  When I was as
 >> young as you are, I had to have my roomate come into
 >> the shack and read color codes on those tiny 1/4watt
 >> resistors.
 JE>
 JE> I'll be 40 next year.
 JE>
 JE>  I've been wearing glasses since the 3rd grade, so my eyes have
 JE> basically been shot, for a LONG time.
Lucky me.  I could read between the lines on a 6" scale laid out in .010 of 
an inch.  When I was 21...
 JE> Makes it hard, sometimes, to try to solder stuff together, or
 JE> unsolder stuff, like for modifying rigs like the TM-721, that uses
 JE> SMD technology.
I have a hood with 7.5 power magnifiers in them.  Makes life a whole lot 
easier..
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