14 Apr
2005
14 Apr
'05
5:22 p.m.
Rumor has it that Joe R. may have mentioned these words:
At 11:55 PM 4/14/05 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
>Howeve, I don't know anyone who learnt to use
a 'scope at
>college/university.
Yes you do...
> All the hackers I know who can use one taught
themselves...
I guess I'm not a hacker then. Should I be offended? ;-)
That's exactly my point. I've never seen anyone
that learned to use
one in college. Everyone that I know that KNOWS how to use one either
learned it in the military or is a self-taught hobbiest.
::Raises hand sheepishly::
Basic 'scope usage was taught to all computer / electrical / robotics
engineering students at my college ('85-87). As my father was against
owning anything more complex than a 4-function calculator or color TV
electronically, I never had the ability to learn to use one before college.
Oh, and for the record: I *didn't* graduate. ;-/
Had a upper-level turnover at the school; the "new regime" decided to turn
the college "liberal arts centric." They ditched most higher-level
engineering courses, and I couldn't even finish my senior sequence of
classes in CE or Robotics; so I dropped out and joined the workforce. This
college was in the top 10 colleges in the *country* for robotics at the
time, too! Dumbasses! ::Smacks Head::
Nowadays, I doubt you could find many students there that could *spell*
oscilloscope, let alone tell you what one does... :-(
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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