17 Jan
2003
17 Jan
'03
7:46 p.m.
Well for me the newsgroups were always the biggest
source of info. The sci.electronics ones have a lot of
helpful people and there are the various music ones.
The web I find for the most part frustrating and time
consuming. If I don't get an answer on the list or it's
too off-topic I next search the newsgroups for a
suitable milleu. As much as I learned on the list,
and I must say I'm fond of it, I've learned twice as
much on the comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware, and at
one time on the Atari St one, for my particular needs.
Lawrence
On 17 Jan 2003, , liste(a)artware.qc.ca wrote:
Another question would be : where should one go to discuss
electronics? I have 2 projects I'd like some feedback on :
repairing an ancient guitar tube amp (specifically, I think
the caps in the power supply are hosored, causing a loud
humm... but where to buy high voltage caps of non-standard
capcitance?), and I'd really like to get into PIC
programming.
I'd really like to have a resource where I can ask all the
newbie
questions that crop up. (Yes, I've RTFMed, but far to often
there's little subtle things that aren't obvious, but that
someone with experience will know.
On 16-Jan-2003 Tony Duell wrote:
lgwalker@ mts.net
Perhaps it should be user-programmable (or
patchable in
the case of an analogue machine). This would rule out
embedded microcontorllers, but would allow computers based
round microcontrollers (the Philips G7000 (Magnavox
something-or-other) has an 8048 as the main CPU, but I
don't think many would call it a microcontroller, for
example).
Odessey?
-Philip