Originally posted by rdenney Stan, you’re an old-line ham—you know what it is to keep old stuff effectively useful.
Rick “KR9D” Denney
Yes, this is true, but it is worse than that. I have been in electronics, mostly radio, since 1979. I put radios into portable computers for IBM from 81-94, then went Mainstream (rather than Mainframe) with Ericsson until 2009 and then BlackBerry until 2014.
I spent a lot of those years doing sustaining engineering and failure analysis. Which, I still do. I have a lab here at the house. I have plenty of modern instruments, but also plenty of old school HP and Tektronix stuff from back when I began. I do keep it all working.
Much of what I do now involves Legacy stuff I did when new and is still in use.
Yep. Worse than you know! :P
But, I can it all coming to an end before long. I might soon be more Pro with a camera than a spectrum analyzer.
Stan