What did you do to your TJ today?

More like what did I do to my TJ this week. I may have gone a little autistic on the cleaning….
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I was actually in the very last class taught vacuum tube theory in tech school! I've always liked tubes...

I went to Navy Electronic Technician school (26 wks) in 1969-70. We learned all about vacuum tubes. Graduated and got to my ship only to find transistors almost everywhere, except LORAN-C receivers and radar sets.
After Navy went to uni for EE degree and learned all about transistors and solid state electronics. Graduated and got first job only to find integrated circuits everywhere!
 
I went to Navy Electronic Technician school (26 wks) in 1969-70. We learned all about vacuum tubes. Graduated and got to my ship only to find transistors almost everywhere, except LORAN-C receivers and radar sets.
After Navy went to uni for EE degree and learned all about transistors and solid state electronics. Graduated and got first job only to find integrated circuits everywhere!

I decided to split my days in high school in my senior year at the East Valley Tech Institute(EVIT) studying electronics. I was enjoying it until we got to transistors lol. I never went into the electronics field after that.
 
I went to Navy Electronic Technician school (26 wks) in 1969-70. We learned all about vacuum tubes. Graduated and got to my ship only to find transistors almost everywhere, except LORAN-C receivers and radar sets.
After Navy went to uni for EE degree and learned all about transistors and solid state electronics. Graduated and got first job only to find integrated circuits everywhere!

That's one thing I do like about retirement. I don't have to listen to that little voice "Keep up, keep up, keep up, keep up..." all the fucking time. When I bought my new computer a couple of months ago, I just asked a geek who is still keeping up and bought what he told me to. 8 years post retirement and quite a few things had changed.
 
I decided to split my days in high school in my senior year at the East Valley Tech Institute(EVIT) studying electronics. I was enjoying it until we got to transistors lol. I never went into the electronics field after that.

I was in the odd position of learning transistor theory before I learned vacuum tube theory. Transistors didn't make sense to me until after I'd learned vacuum tubes, then it all lined up.
 
I was in the odd position of learning transistor theory before I learned vacuum tube theory. Transistors didn't make sense to me until after I'd learned vacuum tubes, then it all lined up.

I'm sure glad that there are people out there who get it lol!
 
I decided to split my days in high school in my senior year at the East Valley Tech Institute(EVIT) studying electronics. I was enjoying it until we got to transistors lol. I never went into the electronics field after that.

Weird random fact… my mom was an assistant superintendent at EVIT about 20 years ago.
 
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