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Read Grumpy Old Man,

I was a family doctor (the old fashioned kind) for 44 years, but sincerely wished I had known about computers and how they worked before I got into medicine. Just the excitement of what computers can do in medicine might have called me into research in using computers in medicine. Our chemistry professor, Max Thomas, brought a small lucite box into the lab one day and tried to tell us this was the future but I was too busy learning medicine and ham radio was enough to satisfy my nerd instinct. His black box was a four bit computer with sensors to read the pencil lead marks on out test papers and blink out the results in hex on the top of the box. He had made it himself..... we thought he was weird.

Such is life.

Now I struggle to learn a little about the digital side of radio. Exciting none the less but I am so far behind. Just don’t have the mental energy to struggle with it too much. The younger set is trying to teach me though.... not completely hopeless.

Dave K8WPE since 1960 (a radio nut since 1955 and my first crystal set.)

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