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    The new term starts next week...

    I'm losing the will to live...

    the sheer joy and anticipation of describing

    1. the stores ordering system

    2. the common emitter amplifier & how to simulate it using a variety of spice

    3. how to build said common emitter amplifier on a bread board using components provided from the stores by yours truly...

    I wish I was a contractor again.



    Ah, that was then, and this is now.

    I don't do that any more since that piece of software was retired about 3 years ago & I couldn't be arsed to learn the new one.

    Not only that, but the esteemed customers now get a fortnight of "computational thinking" to prepare them for the horror that is engineering of software and hardware.

    I wonder which girlie that was.

    At this distance in time I have no recollection at all.
    Last edited by zeitghost; 8 February 2017, 09:39. Reason: typo that annoyed me...

    #2
    Originally posted by zeitghost
    Well it's just started.

    Deep joy....

    But we've got one girlie...
    3 words.
    Sex Offenders Register.
    I am not qualified to give the above advice!

    The original point and click interface by
    Smith and Wesson.

    Step back, have a think and adjust my own own attitude from time to time

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      #3
      Originally posted by The Lone Gunman
      3 words.
      Sex Offenders Register.
      4 words.

      show me the picture
      SA says;
      Well you looked so stylish I thought you batted for the other camp - thats like the ultimate compliment!

      I couldn't imagine you ever having a hair out of place!

      n5gooner is awarded +5 Xeno Geek Points.
      (whatever these are)

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        #4
        Originally posted by zeitghost
        2. the common emitter amplifier & how to simulate it using a variety of spice
        Good grief, is SPICE still going? Many years ago I got a jolly to Linkopping to learn some of that. Is it still "Reams Of Text"?

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          #5
          4 Words...

          Do Not Get Caught!
          Oh Jesus - Disaster Management Ltd.
          You know you'll need us!

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            #6
            Originally posted by zeitghost
            An' they're all over 18 anyway...
            Under NL it's illegal to even look at someone under the age of 65.

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              #7
              Originally posted by zeitghost
              Is thinking about it a crime?
              TB is a part-time Catholic. Just having hands is a sin

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                #8
                Originally posted by zeitghost
                Nah. Reams of text is so 1970s...

                These days it's all schematic capture & pretty pictures and stuff.

                Still have to put the ground in to make it converge though...
                I went in the 1980s...

                We also used Daisy Systems for CAE. I think they went bust.

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                  #9
                  ...ah the term begins.

                  Does that mean you had an incredibly long holiday?

                  ...on a caribbean beach for example.
                  I'm alright Jack

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by zeitghost
                    One of the remarkable innovations by the then Director of Engineering was a write only memory in a telephone dialler chip...


                    Yes, we had datasheets for WOMs going around my old firm. God, this place is nostalgic sometimes.

                    Unfortunately our Director of Engineering wasn't funny. Instead, he concentrated on bragging to the company's engineers and draftsmen how his CAE/CAD/CAM systems would replace their jobs. How to win friends and influence people, eh? After he resigned, he blagged his way into a job as Technical Director of a CAD/CAM company that subsequently sank without trace.

                    As it happens, he was rather thin and always wore the same dark green suit and tie - he looked a bit like a lizard...

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