Hello Jeff.
04 Sep 97 21:50, Jeff Edmonson wrote to Roy Witt:
 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
 >>  JE> have basically been shot, for a LONG time.
 JE>
 >> Lucky me.  I could read between the lines on a 6"
 >> scale laid out in .010 of an inch.  When I was 21...
 JE>
 JE> So... how come you had to have your roommate read the color codes off
 JE> of resistors?
I was about 38 at that time.  Things that small couldn't be seen with the 
naked eye by then.  4 years later, I got my first set of bifocals...
... Of course I'm sane, the voices tell me so.
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