----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhblake(a)bigfoot.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 10:02 PM
Subject: RE: List spammer ID'd
Six transistors? Hell most people on the list here had
to go home
after
school to listen to info on the radio about the
bombing of Japan.
Oi! I'm not that old. LOL. Make it Vietnam and TV and I'd agree.
My first transistor radio was 6 transistor. No FM, (Mostly because we
didn't
have FM radio in this country until the 80's, long after it was a
feature of most
portable radios. The Federal Govt. decided in the 60's that we would
never need
FM broadcasting(!) and stuck a tv channel (4) in the middle of the FM
band.
Consequently the local Channel 4 has it's audio on 100.4 Mhz and can be
heard
on a standard FM rx. This is useful for soap opera afficionados like my
wife who will
listen to Days of Our Dreary Lives on the car radio when she is running
around in the
afternoon.
cheers
Geoff Roberts
Computer Systems Manager
Saint Mark's College
Port Pirie,
South Australia
geoffrob(a)stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au
netcafe(a)tell.net.au
ICQ: 1970476