How the **** Do I Use a Mailing List?

[gene heskett]

On 12/22/22 16:00, Phil wrote:
> 
> On 23/12/22 06:07, Chris Green wrote:
>>
>> Yes, I think I was 'pre-transistor'.  I was born in 1946 which is
>> before the discovery/invention of the transistor device.
> 
> The point-contact transistor was invented by Bell Labs in 1947, the year 
> before I was born.
> 
In '47 I was 13 years old, I bought one of those when it went into 
production a few months later and used it as a preamp in a steel guitar 
I inherited after the original pickup coil failed and I rewound it with 
quite a bit heavier wire.  Worked well for several years but was hard on 
9 volt batteries. Sounded lots better than the much higher inductance 
oem coil ever did. Sweet, but I was not cut out to be a picker and 
grinner. I quit school as soon as I legally could and went to work 
fixing what was then the brand new things called televisions.  The rest 
is history, and some of it is in the old encyclopedia's. Look up the 
navy's Trieste going 37k feet down into the mohole. I helped build those 
two tv cameras that were on it. But I had no clue we were making history 
at the time. I was just having fun and getting paid for it.

Take care and stay well, all.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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